Grammar: existential phrases

Feb 16, 2023

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Many languages treat phrases that indicate that something exists differently from regular phrases of the pattern X does Y.

We call these phrases existential phrases because just like existential questions, they concern themselves with existence.

Here is how English makes that distinction…🥁 through word order 🎉

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