Copular sentences, predication and cyclic agree: A comparative approach - Couverture souple

Dalmi, Grete

 
9783639307214: Copular sentences, predication and cyclic agree: A comparative approach

Synopsis

This monograph investigates copular sentences in multiple BE-system languages within a cartographic syntactic framework (Rizzi 1997, 2004, 2006). Copular construction are analyzed as biclausal Raising constructions cros-linguistically, in which the primary predicate BE (whether it is verbal, pronominal,zero, or dual) selects a small clause complement. Case-marked small clauses are accounted for via Cyclic Agree in the sense of Bejar & Rezac (2009). The primary predicate has a rich C-domain, where the constituents of the small clause move depending on discourse-semantic factors. Languages, where copular sentences contain a pronominal, zero or dual copula can be integrated in the system of mutiple BE-languages.

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À propos de l?auteur

Grete Dalmi is an Associate Professor at Eszterhazy College Eger. She has been working in comparative syntatic theory for decades. In this book she analyzes copular sentences in multiple BE-system languages.

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