Nonverbal Predication: Copular Sentences at the Syntax-Semantics Interface

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Sortkey ROY, ISABELLE
Authors Isabelle Roy
Title Nonverbal Predication: Copular Sentences at the Syntax-Semantics Interface
Publisher Oxford University Press
Year 2013
Languages eng
Isbn 9780199543557
Series Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics
Volume 45
Description xiv, 212 p. 24 cm
Record date 20160629
Location Oxford
Keywords Grammar, Comparative and general, Copula, Syntax, Semantics, Comparative
Notes This text concerns the interpretation and structure of non-verbal predicates in copular sentences (i.e. sentences with the verb 'be'). The author provides a unifying analysis based on a ternary distinction between defining/characterizing/ situation-descriptive predicates.