existential clause

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In some languages, possession relationships are indicated by existential clauses.

Different languages have different ways of forming and using existential clauses.

Possession is indicated in other ways, mainly by genitives and existential clauses.

An existential clause is a clause that refers to the existence or presence of something.

Existential clauses contain a subject with locative phrase.

For details, see existential clause.

In some languages, linguistic possession (in a broad sense) is indicated by existential clauses, rather than by a verb such as have.

This use of there occurs most commonly with forms of the verb be in existential clauses, to refer to the presence or existence of something.

The principal meaning of existential clauses is to refer to the existence of something, or the presence of something in a particular place or time.

In French, the equivalent of the English existential clause "there is" is expressed with il y a, literally "it there has."

Existential clauses can be modified like other clauses in terms of tense, negation, question formation, modality (grammar), finiteness, etc.

Predicates denoting possession may be formed using a verb such as English have, or by other means such as existential clauses (as is usual in languages such as Russian).

Many languages form existential clauses without any particular marker, simply using forms of the normal copula verb (the equivalent of English be), the subject being the noun (phrase) referring to the thing whose existence is asserted.