Sentence examples for expressing existence from inspiring English sources
The paper co-authorship network is a network expressing existence of co-authorship relation between authors of scientific papers (Van Eck and Waltman 2011).
On the one hand, not all clauses expressing existence can be taken as existentialsa: (1) is an existential whereas (2) is not, though they both convey the meaning of existence.
There are other static existentials whose processes are realized by VGs other than yǒu and shì, e.g., Apart from expressing existence, such existentials also indicate the means of existence (e.g., guàzhe in (28)).
This explains the relatedness of existentials and PSPO clauses: In both constructions, the clause-initial NG is locative, and they both express existence, with the existent being things in the former, and events in the latter.
They all express existence of events, rather than things.
Both types of existentials express existence by virtue of the configuration of the initial NGL and the two following elements, though the latter are different in meaning (see the next section).
The two notions differ only in the way they denote the thing of which they are predicated (in modis significandi existence expressing being in the mode of an act, essence in the mode of a possession and the term of an act.
It's not about selling, it's not even necessarily about being good, it's about defiantly expressing your existence in a world that would rather pretend you didn't exist at all.
For another example, we can (using choice) say that the universe of discourse is infinite by saying that there is a transitive relation on the universe such that every element bears the relation to something, but not to itself: ∃R[∀x ∀y ∀z(Rxy & Ryz → Rxz) & ∀x[¬Rxx & ∃y Rxy] Here the second-order quantifier "∃R" expresses the existence of some binary relation on the universe.
Accordingly, dictionaries should help to sort out the main and connotative meanings of the words because languages were born out of the necessities to express the existence of objects.
Typical thing-existentials exclusively express the existence of things.
