presentatiiviset
Presentatiiviset is a linguistic term used to describe constructions that present or introduce referents, events, or situations into the discourse as being present or salient for the listener. They function to draw attention to something new or relevant and often help manage information structure, focus, and topic introduction. The category is cross-linguistic and can appear with different formal strategies depending on the language.
Presentatives can be existential, introducing the existence of a referent (for example, introducing an entity into
Different languages realize presentatives through varying morphosyntactic means. In English, expletive there as a subject in
English: There is a cat on the mat. Here comes the wind.
Finnish (illustrative): Täällä on kissa maton päällä. Tässä tulee juna. These illustrate how presentatives introduce new
Present tense, existential clause, expletive subject, information structure.