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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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Book category Books in English Language linguistics Semantics, discourse analysis, etc

• Full title: Nonverbal Predication
• Subtitle: Copular Sentences at the Syntax-Semantics Interface
• Author: Isabelle Roy
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 240
• EAN: 9780199543540
• ISBN: 0199543542
• ID: 04867157
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Weight: 514 g
• Dimensions: 236 × 161 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 25. April 2013

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