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Lieferstatus:	Auf Bestellung (Lieferzeit unbekannt)
Veröffentlichung:	November 2000
Genre:	Sprache
	C / Grammar, syntax & morphology / Grammar, syntax and morphology / Language and languages—Philosophy / Philosophy of Language / Semantics / Semiotics / Social Sciences / Syntax / Syntax;predicative;semantic;semantics;subject;syntactic mehr...
ISBN:	9780792364092
EAN-Code:	9780792364092
Verlag:	Springer EN
Einband:	Gebunden
Sprache:	English
Dimensionen:	H 244 mm / B 170 mm / D 25 mm
Gewicht:	1540 gr
Seiten:	352
Illustration:	XV, 352 p.
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Predicates and their Subjects is an in-depth study of the syntax-semantics interface focusing on the structure of the subject-predicate relation. Starting from where the author's 1983 dissertation left off, the book argues that there is syntactic constraint that clauses (small and tensed) are constructed out of a one-place unsaturated expression, the predicate, which must be applied to a syntactic argument, its subject. The author shows that this predication relation cannot be reduced to a thematic relation or a projection of argument structure, but must be a purely syntactic constraint. Chapters in the book show how the syntactic predication relation is semantically interpreted, and how the predication relation explains constraints on DP-raising and on the distribution of pleonastics in English. The second half of the book extends the theory of predication to cover copular constructions; it includes an account of the structure of small clauses in Hebrew, of the use of `be' in predicative and identity sentences in English, and concludes with a study of the meaning of the verb `be'.