Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Copular Constructions in Lithuanian; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgement; List of abbreviations; Preface ; Introduction; Part I. Copular constructions and their grammatical context; 1. Difficulties encountered in the syntactic analysis of constructions with the verb būti 'be'; 2. Semantic properties of the verb būti ('to be'); 3. Types of copular constructions; 3.1 Tradition ; 4. Peripheral cases of copular constructions; 5. Final remarks: General ontology and functional differentiation; Part I. Copular constructions and their grammatical context.
  • 6. The 'inverted' type of copular constructions6.1 Expression of the relation of specification in language: Functional motivation; 7. Pseudoclefts
  • a variety of specificational copular sentences; 7.1 Syntactic problems of pseudo-clefts ; 8. The problem of subject assignment in the specificational copular construction; 8.1 Preverbal and postverbal subjects of specificational copular sentences ; Part III. The expression of aspect in copular constructions; 10. Overview of basic issues; General conclusions; Bibliography; List of sources; References ; Name index; Subject index.