'존재' There 구문과 '목록' There 구문

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the syntactic phenomena of existential there-sentences and list there-sentences within the minimalist framework. We argue that list there-sentences must be distinguished from existential there-sentences has the accusative Case feature while the existential verb be does not. So a postverbal pronoun bearing accusative Case in a list there-sentences is checked off its Case feature by the verb be. Second, the expletive there in a list there-sentences does not bear any feature relevant to definiteness. This assumption while only an indefinite postverbal noun phrase is allowed in existential there-sentences. Finally, the number agreement phenomenon appearing in list there-sentences is accounted for by assuming that the ellipsis of there and be occurs in list there-sentences.