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Anonymous Posted 3 years ago
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No there

There's no there there.

Is "there" a noun and the head in the NP "no there" in the sentence above?

  

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anonymous

There's no there there.

Is "there" a noun and the head in the NP "no there" in the sentence above?

There's no there there.


Existential "there" (the first one) is a pronoun, a subclasss of noun. It is head of the NP "no there".

Locative "there" is a preposition.

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