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Predicates and Their Subjects (Hardcover, 2004 ed.)
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Predicates and Their Subjects (Hardcover, 2004 ed.)
Series: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, 74
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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'.
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