基于语料库的英语存在构式研究-外国语言学与应用语言学专业论文.docxVIP

万方数据 万方数据 ABSTRACT English existential sentence is one of the most common constructions in English. English existential construction is used to show ‘Something in some place’. Its usual structure is ‘There+be+n. +adv. of place’. English Existential construction is traditionally studied from the perspective of Generated Grammar theory. English existential has a large scope, on which the studies have obviously achieved a lot. From the perspective of prototypical, pragmatics, corpus-based study or starting from cognitive linguistics, English existential construction has been studied systematicall