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Introduction
Chapter 1 Introduction to English Existentials
1.1 Definition of English Existentials
1.2 Classification of English Existentials
1.3 Basic Features of English Existentials
1.3.1 Unaccusativity of Existential Verbs
1.3.2 Agreement Feature
1.3.3 Indefinite NP
1.3.4 The Subject of English Existentials
Chapter 2 Theoretical Background
2.1 Principles and Parameters Theory
2.1.1 Theta Theory
2.1.2 Case Theory
2.1.3 VP-Internal Subject Hypothesis
2.1.4 vp Shell Hypothesis
2.1.5 UTAH/Uniform Theta Assignment Hypothesis
2.2 Minimalist Program
2.2.1 Lexicon
2.2.2 Derivational Operations
2.2.3 Checking Theory
2.2.4 Principle of Economy
Chapter 3 Literature Review on English Existentials
3.1 Case Transmission
3.2 Direct Case Assignment
3.3 LF Affix Theory
3.4 The Agreement Analysis
3.5 Small Clause Analysis
Chapter 4 The Argument of Existential Verbs Revisited
4.1 The Argument of Existential Verbs
4.1.1 One Argument Analysis
4.1.2 Two Arguments Analysis
4.2 Analysis of the Existential There
4.2.1 Expletive There as the Syntactic Subject
4.2.2 Case Requirement of There
4.2.3 The Semantics of the Expletive There
4.3 The Relationship between There and LP
4.4 The Status of LP in Existentlal Construction LP+V+NP
4.4.1 The Status of LP
4.4.2 The Inverted Existential Construction
Chapter 5 The Derivation of English Existentials
5.1 The Argument Structure of Existential Verbs
5.1.1 The Aspectual Hierarchy
5.1.2 The External Argument
5.2 Comparison between There-construction and LP-construction
5.3 The Case of the Postverbal NP
5.4 Syntactic Derivation of Existentials
5.4.1 Derivation of There+V+NP+LP
5.4.2 Derivation of LP-construction
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
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