The Raising Of Predicates Pedicative Noun Phrases And The Theory Of Clause Structure

One of the basic premises of the theory of syntax is that clause structures can be minimally identified as containing a verb phrase, playing the role of predicate, and a noun phrase, playing the role of subject.

Main Author: MORO, Andrea (-)
Format: Electronic
Bahasa: eng
Terbitan: Cambridge ; New York ; Cambridge University Press , 1997.
Series: Cambridge studies in linguistics ; 80.
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Daftar Isi:
  • Introduction: for apparently unrelated empirical domains
  • 1.
  • The anomaly of copular sentences: the raising of predicates
  • 2.
  • The syntax of ci
  • 3.
  • Are there parameters in semantics? The defining properties of existential sentences
  • 4.
  • The 'quasi-copula': the role of finite clauses in seem-sentences
  • 5.
  • A view beyond: unaccusativity as an epiphenomenon
  • Appendix.
  • A brief history of the copula.