Predicates and Their Subjects Paperback / softback
by Susan Rothstein
Part of the Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy series
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Predicates and their Subjects 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'.
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- Pages:352 pages, XV, 352 p.
- Publisher:Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
- Publication Date:31/03/2004
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- ISBN:9781402020582
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Item not Available
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:352 pages, XV, 352 p.
- Publisher:Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
- Publication Date:31/03/2004
- Category:
- ISBN:9781402020582
