Nam, Wahn. 2001. Semantics of the there construction in English. The Linguistic Association Korea Journal 9(l). 133-144. This paper examines the meaning of the there construction in English. It U argued that the only indefinite postverbal n may o in the there construction when the particular discourse world is not presupposed, since the existence of the definite postverbal n is presupposed in the physical world, and it is not possible that we assert the existence of the entities presupposed. Yet, if the particular discourse world is given, both definite and indefinite hours are felicitous in the there construction . It is also claimed that the meaning of the there construction is the assertion of the existence of an entity/entitles or a state of affects, yet the existence is not the existence of the objective meaning irrelevant to the discourse, but the existence of the conceptual meaning relevant to the discourse. (Seonam University)