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- Book Title
- The Raising of Predicates: Predicative Noun Phrases and the Theor
- ISBN-13
- 9780521562331
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10
0521562333
ISBN-13
9780521562331
eBay Product ID (ePID)
365734
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
332 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Raising of Predicates : Predicative Noun Phrases and the Theory of Clause Structure
Publication Year
1997
Subject
Linguistics / Syntax, General
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Language Arts & Disciplines
Series
Cambridge Studies in Linguistics Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
22 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
96-007773
Dewey Edition
20
TitleLeading
The
Series Volume Number
Series Number 80
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
415
Table Of Content
Acknowledgments; Introduction: four apparently unrelated empirical domains; 1. The anomaly of copular sentences: the raising of predicates; 2. The syntax of ci; 3. Are there parameters in semantics? The defining properties of existential sentences; 4. The 'quasi-copula': on the role of finite clauses in seem-sentences; 5. A view beyond: unaccusativity as an epiphenomenon; Appendix; Notes; References; Index.
Synopsis
One of the basic premises of the theory of syntax is that clause structures can be minimally identified as containing a verb phrase, playing the role of predicate, and a noun phrase, playing the role of subject. In this study Andrea Moro identifies a new category of copular sentences, namely inverse copular sentences, where the noun phrase which co-occurs with the verb phrase plays the role of predicate, occupying the position which is canonically reserved for subjects, and the subject is embedded in the verb phrase. The consequences of such a discovery are pervasive. Four distinct areas of syntax are unified into a unique natural class. Along with inverse copular sentences, existential sentences, sentences with seem and unaccusative constructions are analysed as involving the raising of a predicative noun phrase to the most prominent position in the clause structure. In addition, new light is shed on some classical issues such as the distribution and nature of expletives, locality theory, cliticization phenomena, possessive constructions, and the cross-linguistic variations of the Definiteness Effect., In this study Andrea Moro identifies the new category of inverse copular sentences, where the predicative noun phrase occupies the position which is canonically reserved for subjects. In the process, he sheds new light on such classical issues as the distribution and nature of expletives, locality theory and cliticization phenomena., One of the basic premises of the theory of syntax is that clause structures can be minimally identified as containing a verb phrase, playing the role of predicate, and a noun phrase, playing the role of subject. In this study Andrea Moro identifies a new category of copular sentences, namely inverse copular sentences, where the predicative noun phrase occupies the position that is canonically reserved for subjects. In the process, he sheds new light on such classical issues as the distribution and nature of expletives, locality theory and cliticization phenomena., New light is shed on some classical issues such as the distribution and nature of expletives, locality theory, cliticization phenomena, possessive constructions, and the cross-linguistic variations of the Definiteness Effect.
LC Classification Number
P297 .M67 1997
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