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Nonverbal Predication : Copular sentences at the syntax-semantics interface

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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9780199543540
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: English Literature
  • Publisher: Oxford UP
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 232
  • Original Price: GBP 81.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 518 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Linguistics / General

About the Book 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/individual distinction. The distinction is based on two semantic criteria, namely maximality (i.e., whether the predicate describes an eventuality that has spatio-temporal properties or not) and density (i.e. whether the spatio-temporal properties are perceived as atomic or not). The author argues in favor of a strong correlation between the semantics properties of predicates and their internal syntactic structure. Her analysis accounts for seemingly unrelated cross-linguistic data: the indefinite article in
French, the distribution of the two copulas 'ser'/'estar' in Spanish, and case marking on Russian predicates.

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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