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Roy, Isabelle

 
9780199543540: Nonverbal Predication: Copular Sentences at the Syntax-Semantics Interface: 45 (Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics)
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ISBN 10: 0199543542 ISBN 13: 9780199543540
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Sinopsis

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.

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Isabelle Roy is an Associate Professor at the Unversity of Paris 8. She received her PhD from the University of Southern California in 2006.

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Editorial
OUP Oxford
Año de publicación
2013
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Inglés
ISBN 10 
0199543542
ISBN 13 
9780199543540
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Número de páginas
230
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