@article{oai:kanazawa-u.repo.nii.ac.jp:00059553,
 author = {YAGUCHI, Michiko and 家口, 美智子},
 journal = {言語文化論叢, Studies of Language and Culture},
 month = {Mar},
 note = {This study clarifies how the there + be + NP + ing (T-ing construction) and there + be + NP + en (T-en construction) constructions are used in fiction. Its analysis demonstrates that both constructions render similar behaviors to the ordinary existential construction (T construction: e.g. there + be + NP + PP/Ø/AdP). First, the ratios of occurrences in narration to the total occurrences are on the same level among the three constructions. Second, although the T-ing construction is used slightly more often in the shortened form than the T construction, the ratios of the three constructions appearing in the shortened form vary little. Third, the T-ing construction and the T construction share an almost identical ratio of number disagreement between there’s and NP, but the T-en construction shows a very low ratio of number disagreement due to frequent use of uncountable nouns as NPs. These facts reject the hypothesis of this study that be in the there + be + NP + ing/en is profiled as auxiliary verb, unlike be in the T construction. They rather lend support to the validity of the hypothesis that any existential sentences take a small-clause structure of there + be + [NP + PP/ing/en/AP/pp/AdP/Ø].},
 pages = {1--17},
 title = {there+be+NP+ing 構文とthere+be+NP+en 構文について},
 volume = {26},
 year = {2022}
}