This article is about the typology of inverse locational predication, commonly called
existential predication, illustrated by English There is a book on the table. After discussing …

This volume provides the first ever large-scale comparative treatment of there sentences
(there copula NP), reporting the results of a survey of Italo-Romance and Sardinian dialects …

This chapter discusses copular and existential constructions, starting from the assumption
that the common property of these structures is that they have a nonverbal predicate. We …

The main goal of the present paper is twofold: on the one hand, to highlight the patterns of
variation among the existential constructions found in Italo-Romance and Sardinian dialects; …

Focus is a key notion to understand processes of syntactic and prosodic readjustments in
Romance. Since, prosodically, it must be the most prominent constituent in the sentence …

Existential sentences in Spanish are sensitive to the definiteness or quantification restriction
or effect, which prevents personal pronouns, proper nouns, and definite constituents from …

The intensive research that has been carried out over the past two decades on all aspects of
Information Structure has had lots of positive results. The most salient one, in my opinion …

Constructions that are typically used to introduce a new referent into the discourse may
extend this function so as to introduce a new event or situation. In this paper, I examine the …

In this chapter we analyse the main characteristics of Romance existential constructions,
placing particular emphasis on the interfaces of morphosyntax with semantics and …

Presentational c'è/il ya clefts in Italian and French have been argued to differ from the
existential and locative constructions they derive from by their syntactic, semantic and …