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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.
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About the Author
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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"This monograph tackles a very difficult topic, predicative copular sentences, in such a way as to make longstanding linguistic problems look fairly straightforward. The argumentation is well-designed, carefully organized, and thorough, addressing past analyses and building on earlier work, most recently that of Martin (2008). Not surprisingly, the proposed solution lies at the interface of semantics, syntax, and pragmatics. The fact that such an interface could be identified for nonverbal predication and extended to multiple languages is commendable, and supports the direction of this research." --LinguistList
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- PublisherOxford University Press
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 0199543542
- ISBN 13 9780199543540
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages230
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