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Nonverbal Predication
Isabelle Roy (Writer on linguistics)
其他書名
Copular Sentences at the Syntax-Semantics Interface
出版
OUP Oxford
, 2013-04-25
主題
Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General
Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Syntax
Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Semantics
ISBN
0199543542
9780199543540
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=QfYEAQAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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This book considers the syntax and semantics of non-verbal predicates (i.e., nominal, adjectival and prepositional predicates) in copular sentences. Isabelle Roy explores how a single structure for predication can account for the different interpretations of non-verbal predicates. The book departs from earlier studies by arguing in favor of a ternary distinction between defining / characterizing / situation-descriptive predicates rather than the more common stage-level/individual distinction. The distinction is based on two semantic criteria, namely maximality (i.e., whether the predicate describes an eventuality that has spatio-temporal properties or not) and density (i.e. whether the spatio-temporal properties are perceived as atomic or not). The author argues in favor of a strong correlation between the semantics properties of predicates and their internal syntactic structure. Her analysis accounts for seemingly unrelated cross-linguistic data: the indefinite article in French, the distribution of the two copulas 'ser'/'estar' in Spanish, and case marking on Russian predicates.