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Copular clauses : specification, predication and equation /
This book is concerned with a class of copular clauses known as specificational clauses, and its relation to other kinds of copular structures, predicational and equative clauses in particular. Based on evidence from Danish and English, I argue that specificational clauses involve the same core pred...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA :
J. Benjamins,
2005.
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| Colección: | Linguistik aktuell ;
Bd. 85. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book is concerned with a class of copular clauses known as specificational clauses, and its relation to other kinds of copular structures, predicational and equative clauses in particular. Based on evidence from Danish and English, I argue that specificational clauses involve the same core predication structure as predicational clauses -- one which combines a referential and a predicative expression to form a minimal predicational unit -- but differ in how the predicational core is realized syntactically. Predicational copular clauses represent the canonical realization, where the referenti. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (1 volume) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9789027294135 9027294135 9789027228093 9027228094 128215642X 9781282156425 9786612156427 6612156422 |
| ISSN: | 0166-0829 ; |
| Acceso: | University staff and students only. Requires University Computer Account login on and off-campus. |