e/Existential clause

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has gloss	eng: Existential clauses are clauses that indicate only an existence. In English, they are formed with the dummy subject construction (also known as expletive) with "there", e.g. "There are boys in the yard". Many languages do not require a dummy subject, e.g. Finnish, where the sentence Pihalla on poikia is literally "On the yard is boys". Some languages have a different verb for this purpose, e.g. Swedish finnas, as in, Det finns pojkar på gården, which is literally "It is found boys on the yard" (or, more accurately, "It exists boys on the yard"). On the other hand, some languages do not require a copula at all, and sentences analogous to "In the yard boys" are used.
lexicalization	eng: existential clause
instance of	e/Grammatical relation