{"product_id":"predicates-and-their-subjects-9780792364092","title":"Predicates and Their Subjects","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Susan Rothstein\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Springer\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Springer\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Grammar \u0026amp; Punctuation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePredicates and their Subjects\u003c\/strong\u003e is an in-depth study of the syntax-semantics interface focusing on the structure of the subject-predicate relation. Starting from where the author's 1983 dissertation left off, the book argues that there is syntactic constraint that clauses (small and tensed) are constructed out of a one-place unsaturated expression, the predicate, which must be applied to a syntactic argument, its subject. The author shows that this predication relation cannot be reduced to a thematic relation or a projection of argument structure, but must be a purely syntactic constraint. Chapters in the book show how the syntactic predication relation is semantically interpreted, and how the predication relation explains constraints on DP-raising and on the distribution of pleonastics in English. The second half of the book extends the theory of predication to cover copular constructions; it includes an account of the structure of small clauses in Hebrew, of the use of  be' in predicative and identity sentences in English, and concludes with a study of the meaning of the verb  be'.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Springer","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45284144906391,"sku":"9780792364092","price":10915.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780792364092.webp?v=1769280313","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/predicates-and-their-subjects-9780792364092","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}