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Roy, Isabelle Anais.

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Non-verbal predications: A syntactic analysis of predicational copular sentences.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Non-verbal predications: A syntactic analysis of predicational copular sentences./
Author:	Roy, Isabelle Anais.
Description:	343 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Hagit Borer.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-10A.
Subject:	Language, Linguistics. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3237730
ISBN:	9780542923975

Non-verbal predications: A syntactic analysis of predicational copular sentences.
Roy, Isabelle Anais.

Non-verbal predications: A syntactic analysis of predicational copular sentences. - 343 p.

Adviser: Hagit Borer.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Southern California, 2006.

This dissertation is about the syntax and semantics of non-verbal expressions in their direct predicative use in copular constructions. While most, if not all, typologies of copular sentences agree that all subject-predicate constructions (Paul is young, Paul is president, Paul is on vacation) belong to the same type, namely predicational sentences, many unrelated languages seem to mark grammatical distinctions between these sentence types (alternations in auxiliary forms, in case marking of predicates) suggesting that, in actuality, all predicational sentences are not equal. The purpose of this dissertation is to investigate this possibility.

ISBN: 9780542923975Subjects--Topical Terms:

1018079
Language, Linguistics.

Non-verbal predications: A syntactic analysis of predicational copular sentences.
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520 $a This dissertation is about the syntax and semantics of non-verbal expressions in their direct predicative use in copular constructions. While most, if not all, typologies of copular sentences agree that all subject-predicate constructions (Paul is young, Paul is president, Paul is on vacation) belong to the same type, namely predicational sentences, many unrelated languages seem to mark grammatical distinctions between these sentence types (alternations in auxiliary forms, in case marking of predicates) suggesting that, in actuality, all predicational sentences are not equal. The purpose of this dissertation is to investigate this possibility.
520 $a The first part of the dissertation (chapters 2-4) is dedicated to a detailed empirical study of predicational copular sentences across French, Spanish, Russian and Gaelic. I argue that the distinctions observed across these languages fall into three categories (situation-descriptive, characterizing and defining predications), departing from the traditional view that typically postulates a two-way distinction, usually between stage-level and individual-level predicates.
520 $a The distribution of non-verbal expressions in the three types of sentences is categorically constrained, making nominals the only option in defining sentences and non-nominal expressions the only option in situation-descriptive ones. Across languages, an area of variation is found with respect to characterizing sentences, which can take either nominal or non-nominal expressions.
520 $a The second part (chapters 5-6) presents a theory of copular sentences and the relationships between structure and meaning of non-verbal predicates, where all interpretational distinctions between the three types of sentences are derived from the particular structure of the event the non-verbal expressions are predicated of (in a neo-davidsonian framework extended to non-verbal (state) predicates), which in turn is determined by the internal structure of the non-verbal expression. I argue, in particular, for the relevance of the mass-count distinction at the level of predication, proposing that all predicates default to mass events (situation-descriptive), unless they are associated with count structures through the functional projection ClassifierP ( characterizing). Other cases (i.e. defining) are maximal quantifications over events and are associated with bigger functional projections.
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