Presentative (linguistics)
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Presentative (linguistics)
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A presentative, or presentational, is a word or a syntactic structure which presents, or introduces, an entity, bringing it to the attention of the addressee. Typically, the entity thus introduced will serve as the topic of the subsequent discourse. For example, the construction with "there" in the following English sentence is a presentative: There appeared a cat on the window sill. In French, one of major uses of the words voici and voilà is presentative, as in the following example: However
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