Format:
1 Online-Ressource (XIV, 268 S.).
ISBN:
978-3-11-026346-6
,
978-3-11-026347-3
Series Statement:
Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie 369
Note:
Description based upon print version of record. - This book consists of a comparative study of the locative constituents that may appear in the existential constructions of three Romance languages: 'il y a' in French, 'hay' in Spanish and 'c'è' in Italian. The first part discusses the role of these locatives from a morphological, discursive, semantic and syntactic point of view. The second part analyses the syntactic and discursive behaviour of different semantic kinds of locatives in a large corpus of newspaper articles. It appears that French 'il y a' functions more as a topic-introducing device than as an existential predicate, and to a larger extent than Spanish 'hay' and Italian 'c'è'. Machteld Claire Meulleman, University of Ghent, Belgium
Language:
French
Keywords:
Französisch
;
Spanisch
;
Italienisch
;
Existenzialsatz
;
Lokalbestimmung
;
Temporalbestimmung
;
Hochschulschrift
DOI:
10.1515/9783110263473
