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Non-Verbal Predication: Copular sentences at the syntax-semantics interface (Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics) - Softcover
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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...
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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...
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- PublisherOxford University Press
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 0199543550
- ISBN 13 9780199543557
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages230
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