Predicates and Their Subjects
(Sprache: Englisch)
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...
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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'.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Predicates and Their Subjects “
- Introduction1. Why `subject' is a grammatical concept
Part I: The Syntax of Predication
2. The grammatical theory of predication
3. The syntactic properties of subjects
4. Predication as a thematic relation
5. The Syntactic Forms of Predication
Part II: The Semantics of Predication
6. Interpretation
7. The semantics of pleonastics
Part III: The Syntax and Semantics of Copula Constructions
8. Predication structures in Modern Hebrew identity constructions
9. Copular constructions in English
10. The Meaning of `Be'
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Susan Rothstein
- 2001, 2004., 352 Seiten, Maße: 16 x 24,1 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Springer Netherlands
- ISBN-10: 0792364090
- ISBN-13: 9780792364092
- Erscheinungsdatum: 30.11.2000
Sprache:
Englisch
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