Existentials and past postings on SLLING-L

[Adam Schembri]

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On 4/11/02 9:27, "Christopher Miller" <miller.christopher at UQAM.CA> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> As it turns out, SLLING-L had a discussion going on this topic for
> about a week, *exactly* nine months ago! The discussion was triggered
> by a question posted on the LINGUIST list (issue # 13.280) on February
> 3rd and was followed by some 20 postings to SLLING-L. They were quite
> interesting and touched on a number of different points, and we had
> data from quite a variety of different languages to boot.
> 
> I don't know if SLLING-L has a digest like LINGUIST does. If not, (or
> even if so!) I could forward these messages which I have kept on disk;
> if people on the list express any interest in looking at the discussion
> again, I could actually forward them to the list itself.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Chris Miller
> 
> On Sunday, November 3, 2002, at 06:41  am, E. Arik wrote:
> 
>> Dear list members,
>> 
>> I have a couple of questions concerning 'existentials' in sign language
>> research. First of all, is there any research done 'there is/exists'
>> type of predicates on very much studied sign languages? Secondly, does
>> any sign language have verb 'exist' in the lexicon? Then, if any, what
>> is the function of this predicate? Does it have a function simply as
>> that of 'have' in English? Another one, does this 'exist' predicate
>> need locatives such as 'deixis' and/or 'locatives'? Finally, does an
>> existential verb have any other syntactic function, say, in embedded
>> sentences?
>> 
>> 
>> Best,
>> Engin Arik
>> Universiteit van Amsterdam
>> Sign Linguistics, MA
>> 
>> 
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