Isabelle Roy

Nonverbal Predication

Copular Sentences at the Syntax-Semantics Interface

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 517g
• ISBN-13: 9780199543540
• ISBN-10: 0199543542
• Artikelnr.: 38132454

Autorenporträt

Isabelle Roy is an Associate Professor at the Unversity of Paris 8. She received her PhD from the University of Southern California in 2006.

Inhaltsangabe

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