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This publication provides a large-scale comparative treatment of 'there' sentences (there copula NP), reporting the results of a survey of over 100 Italo-Romance and Sardinian dialects spoken in Italy. It addresses key issues in linguistic theory and offers a valuable source of data for research on the Romance languages.

Romance Languages --- Languages & Literatures --- Italian language --- Romance languages. --- Dialects --- Existential constructions. --- Locative constructions. --- Neo-Latin languages --- Italic languages and dialects --- Romance languages --- sardinian --- there-sentences --- existential --- role and reference grammar --- locative --- italo-romance --- microvariation --- dialects --- romance --- Clitic --- Copula (linguistics) --- Noun phrase --- Predicate (grammar) --- Pro-form