Sentence examples for existential readings from inspiring English sources

Though such sentences favor existential readings, sentences like 31 c cast doubt on the claim that they only allow existential readings.

I shall also talk of the (alleged) universal and existential readings of sentences like 14.

As does the question of whether conditional donkey sentences seem to manifest both universal and existential readings.

For example, Kanazawa [1994b] captures the universal and existential readings by defining a strong and a weak dynamic generalized quantifier for each determiner (see p. 138).

On the other hand, as Kanazawa's remarks just suggested, Chierchia [1995] attempts to capture the universal and existential readings by positing an ambiguity in the pronouns in donkey sentences.

The existential and predicative readings typically are committed to objects as what knowledge and belief are set over.

This paper focuses on the epistemic and metaphysical readings of the existential non-root modal keneng.

Reading books by existential thinkers like Friedrich Nietzsche, Søren Kierkegaard, and Jean-Paul Sartre will be helpful in understanding what existentialism means.

However, investigating into mention-some readings of questions with existential modals (e.g., "Who can chair the committee?"), I argue for a non-exhaustive definition of Completeness that unifies mention-some and mention-all readings of questions (Fox 2013).

These are just the readings corresponding to the (alleged) universal and existential truth conditions, respectively.

Three different readings of the 'is' seem possible: a) the existential; b) the veridical; and c) the predicative.