Non-Verbal Predication : Copular Sentences at the Syntax-Semantics Interface
ISBN: 9780199543557 | 0199543550
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 6/10/2013
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This book considers the syntax and semantics of non-verbal predicates (i.e., nominal, adjectival and prepositional predicates) in copular sentences. Isabelle Roy explores how a single structure for predication can account for the different interpretations of non-verbal predicates. The book departs from earlier studies by arguing in favor of a ternary distinction between defining / characterizing / situation-descriptive predicates rather than the more common stage-level/individualdistinction. The distinction is based on two semantic criteria, na... MORE
I Predicational copular sentences at the syntax-semantics interface
1. Introduction
2. Predication, non-verbal stative predicates and copular sentences
II Meanings and structures
3. Meaning and typology of non-verbal predicates
4. Internal syntax of non-verbal predicates
III Further analysis
5. The case of the Russian copula
6. Spanish multiple 'be'
7. Irish multiple 'be' and genericity
8. Conclusion
References
Index
Isabelle Roy is an Associate Professor at the Unversity of Paris 8. She received her PhD from the University of Southern California in 2006.
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