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Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Literature Review
2.1 English Existential Sentence
2.1.1 Characteristics of English Existential Sentence
2.1.2 Three Senses of Defining English Existential Sentence
2.2 Hot Topics of English Existential Sentence Study
2.2.1 Existential Verb
2.2.2 Expletive “There”
2.2.3 Real Subject
2.2.4 DE
2.2.5 NP-XP Relationship
2.2.6 Expletive “There” and Locative Adverb “There”
2.3 Major Studies of English Existential Sentence
2.3.1 Non-Syntactic Researchers and Their Assumptions
2.3.2 Syntactic Researchers and Their Assumptions
Chapter 3 Case Theory in MP Framework
3.1 About MP
3.1.1 Basic Operations
3.1.2 Features of Syntactic Objects
3.1.3 Movement and Feature Checking
3.1.4 Equidistance Principle
3.2 Case Theory
3.2.1 Understanding of Case
3.2.2 Case, Checking and EPP
3.2.3 Partitive Case Hypothesis
3.2.4 Compatibility Between Partitive Case and Other Cases
Chapter 4 Unified Account of English Existential Sentence
4.1 Only Prototype: ES
4.2 Other Pseudo Existential Sentence
4.2.1 Link Verb Construction
4.2.2 Locative Inversion Construction
4.3 Case Examination of Expletive “There” and Associate NP
4.3.1 Case Features of Expletive “There” and Associate NP
4.3.2 Configuration of Case Feature Checking
4.4 LP in ES
4.5 Examination of Existential Verb
4.5.1 A Unified Analysis
4.5.2 An Essential Argument Structure
4.6 EPP
Chapter 5 Conclusion
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
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