Open Access'Have', 'with' and 'without'
Author(s) -
Bert Le Bruyn,
H.E. de Swart,
Joost Zwarts
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
proceedings from semantics and linguistic theory
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2163-5951
pISSN - 2163-5943
DOI - 10.3765/salt.v0i0.2686
Subject(s) - existentialism , noun , semantics (computer science) , linguistics , computer science , natural language processing , artificial intelligence , epistemology , programming language , philosophy
The research reported in this paper is part of our attempt to get to a deeper understanding of why 'with' and 'without' are special prepositions in taking singular bare nouns more easily than other prepositions. The paper focuses on the semantics of existential and incorporation 'have', which we take to be the same and to constitute the verbal counterpart of 'with' and 'without'. We propose existential/incorporation 'have' builds relations: it selects one-place predicates and turns them into two-place predicates.