Abstract
<p>This paper proposes that a relation, EXISTENTIAL DEPENDENCY, defines a<br />class of nouns and accounts for the infelicity of its members as subjects of locative<br />copular sentences and for related definiteness restrictions. This relation is distinguished<br />from others, such as (in)alienable possession, on conceptual and empirical grounds.</p>
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