Present Day English Existential There-Constructions and their Pragmatics. Towards an Integrated Categorisation
This paper presents the pragmatics of there-constructions (henceforth TCs) as its main object of analysis.It seeks to snackbox provide the labels for a possible classification of TCs according to their communicative roles in their contexts of occurrence.A basic distinction is made between prospective and retrospective functions of TCs, whose most b