Copular clauses specification, predication and equation
This book is concerned with a class of copular clauses known as specificational clauses, and its relation to other kinds of copular structures, predicational and equative clauses in particular. Based on evidence from Danish and English, I argue that specificational clauses involve the same core pred...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA :
J. Benjamins
2005.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Linguistik aktuell/Linguistics today ; v. 85. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b31606842*spi |
| Sumario: | This book is concerned with a class of copular clauses known as specificational clauses, and its relation to other kinds of copular structures, predicational and equative clauses in particular. Based on evidence from Danish and English, I argue that specificational clauses involve the same core predication structure as predicational clauses -- one which combines a referential and a predicative expression to form a minimal predicational unit -- but differ in how the predicational core is realized syntactically. Predicational copular clauses represent the canonical realization, where the referenti. |
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| Notas: | Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Santa Cruz, 2004. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 recurso electrónico |
| Formato: | Forma de acceso: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliografía: | Incluye referencias bibliográficas. |
| ISBN: | 9789027294135 9789027228093 9781282156425 |
