Predicates and Their Subjects - Couverture rigide

Rothstein, Susan

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0792364090 ISBN 13 : 9780792364092

Editeur : Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000

Synopsis

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'.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Kluwer Academic Publishers
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0792364090
• ISBN 13: 9780792364092
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 367
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