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Linguistic Inquiry

Fall 2006, Vol. 37, No. 4, Pages 648-651
(doi: 10.1162/ling.2006.37.4.648)
© 2006 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Subject-Predicate Theory of There
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Edwin Williams
029 East Pyne Building, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544. E-mail: edwin@princeton.edu
Abstract

The “associate” NP in the English existential there-construction is a predicative NP, and there is its subject.