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40 RONNIE CANN ?Ty(t), ♦ Ty(e),Fo(U LOC(U,V) ) ?∃x.Fo(x) Ty(e → t), ?∃x.Fo(x),Fo(BE SK ) Figure 15. Parsing There’s U ❀LOC(U,PLACE) . In other words, part of the grammaticalisation of the locative proform into an expletive subject involves a shift in perspective from the place where something is to the thing itself. This shift has the effect of associating the expletive with the associate (the postcopular DP) rather than directly with any locative expression. There may thus be taken to project the information: Fo(U ❀LOC(U,V) ). Put together, parsing there be thus involves the projection of a radically underspecified propositional structure, where both subject and predicate are decorated by metavariables, as shown in Figure 15. The account I propose of the interpretation of clauses containing some form of this string then rests on how the content of these two nodes is established in context, given the other material provided by the string. The properties of the substituend of the other argument thus determine in part how the there be clause is to be interpreted. 41 4.1. The Existential Construction We begin with an analysis of the existential example in There’s a riot on Princes Street. Figure 15 above shows the structure after parsing there’s with metavariables in both subject and predicate position, requiring completion. The pointer is on the top node but completion cannot occur because neither daughter is complete and so the pointer moves onto the subject node and an application of LATE*ADJUNCTION may apply as shown in Figure 16. This allows the parse of the postcopular indefinite noun phrase, ariot, which merges with the subject node to provide the content of the metavariable as illustrated in Figure 17. At this point, the subject node is complete and the pointer moves to the predicate node which provides a means of analysing the coda, on Princes Street, as 41 This approach might provide a means of incorporating the Perspective Structure in existential constructions of Borschev and Partee 1998, Partee and Borschev this volume.
TOWARDS ADYNAMIC ACCOUNT OF BE IN ENGLISH 41 ?Ty(t) Ty(e),Fo(U LOC(U,V) ) ?∃x.Fo(x) ?∃x.Fo(x), Fo(BE SK ) ?Ty(e), ♦ Figure 16. Parsing There’s after LATE*ADJUNCTION ?Ty(t) Ty(e),Fo(U LOC(U, V) ) ?∃x.Fo(x) ?∃x.Fo(x), Fo(BE SK ) Ty(e),Fo( , x, Riot ′ (x)), ♦ ∋ Fo(x, Riot ′ (x)) Fo(λP.( ,P)) ∋ Figure 17. Parsing There’s a riot ?Ty(t), ♦ Ty(e),Fo( , x, Riot ′ (x) LOC( ,x,Riot ′ (x),V) ) ∋ ∋ ?∃x.Fo(x) Fo(BE SK ) Fo(x, Riot ′ (x)) Fo(λP.( ,P)) ∋ Ty(e → t),Fo(λx.On ′ (x, PrincesST ′ )) Figure 18. Parsing There’s a riot on Princes Street a straightforward prepositional predicate phrase. Just as with normal predicative constructions, this is achieved through an application of LATE *ADJUNC- TION and MERGE, as shown in Figure 18, 42 which compiles to give the formula: On ′ ((ɛ, x, Riot ′ (x)) ❀LOC(ɛ,x,Riot ′ (x),V), PrincesSt). 42 The internal structure of the prepositional predicate is not shown.
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