存在句是用来表示某事物存在于一定的时间和空间这一概念,作为人类语言的普遍的现象,受到了语言学界的广泛的关注。Chomsky采用转换生成方式来描写英语存在句,其研究尽管有一定的解释力,但由于把意义视为客观的、和语法有截然界限的一个语言层面,因此存在着许多不足。 The existential sentence is a concept used to indicate that something exists in a certain time and space. As a common phenomenon in human language, existentialism has drawn wide attention from the linguistics community. Although Chomsky’s description of English existential sentences by means of conversion is a bit of an explanation, his research has many deficiencies due to its linguistic level, which is regarded as objective and has a clear distinction from grammar.