Constructional Hierarchy and Features of the There Construction

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10.2991/emle-17.2017.156How to use a DOI?

Keywords

There Construction; construction grammar; constructional features; constructional hierarchy

Abstract

The There Construction, as a very important and widely used construction in English has aroused extensive concern of the scholars in the research field. Previous studies predominantly concentrate on such issues as its subject, non-concord in the construction, the definiteness effect of NP after VP, its classification and its formation. Little attention has been paid to the syntactic and semantic features of the construction. Thus, we elaborate the constructional features and the constructional hierarchical relationship of the There Construction in present English on the basis of data collection of COCA (Corpus of Contemporary American English). It might also benefit the further academic study, teaching and acquisition of the There Construction.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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