Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Funding vii
4. Contributors ix
5. Chapter 1. Existential constructions 1
6. Part I. Existence and related constructions
7. Chapter 2. Existential predication and have-possessive constructions in the languages of the world 34
8. Chapter 3. Impersonal existence in the weather domain 68
9. Part II. Existence and information structure
10. Chapter 4. Pure existentials vs. pure presentationals 102
11. Chapter 5. Presentational clefts, existentials and information structure 139
12. Chapter 6. On a continuum from categorical to thetic judgment 180
13. Part III. Existence and quantification
14. Chapter 7. The Finnish existential clause 220
15. Chapter 8. Partition and existence 245
16. Part IV. Existence and negation
17. Chapter 9. Is the French verb manquer ‘lack, miss’ a negative existential predicate? 284
18. Chapter 10. ‘To be’ and its negation in Latvian 301
19. Chapter 11. Words also exist in a world 325
20. Index 347
21. Language index 352