Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: four apparently unrelated empirical domains
- 1 The anomaly of copular sentences: the raising of predicates
- 2 The syntax of ci
- 3 Are there parameters in semantics? The defining properties of existential sentences
- 4 The ‘quasi-copula’: the role of finite clauses in seem-sentences
- 5 A view beyond: unaccusativity as an epiphenomenon
- Appendix: a brief history of the copula
- Notes
- References
- Index
Notes
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: four apparently unrelated empirical domains
- 1 The anomaly of copular sentences: the raising of predicates
- 2 The syntax of ci
- 3 Are there parameters in semantics? The defining properties of existential sentences
- 4 The ‘quasi-copula’: the role of finite clauses in seem-sentences
- 5 A view beyond: unaccusativity as an epiphenomenon
- Appendix: a brief history of the copula
- Notes
- References
- Index
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- The Raising of PredicatesPredicative Noun Phrases and the Theory of Clause Structure, pp. 262 - 300Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1997