Predicates and Their Subjects (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2004)

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'.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, 74
Release date:	October 2004
First published:	October 2004
Authors:	Susan Rothstein
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	352
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2004
ISBN-13:	978-1-4020-2058-2
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > General
LSN:	1-4020-2058-9
Barcode:	9781402020582

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