Predicates and Their Subjects /

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 c...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Rothstein, Susan
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2004.
Series:	Studies in linguistics and philosophy ; 74.
Subjects:	Linguistics. Linguistics > Philosophy. Semantics. Grammar, Comparative and general > Syntax. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction
1. Why `subject' is a grammatical concept
Part I: The Syntax of Predication
2. The grammatical theory of predication
3. The syntactic properties of subjects
4. Predication as a thematic relation
5. The Syntactic Forms of Predication
Part II: The Semantics of Predication
6. Interpretation
7. The semantics of pleonastics
Part III: The Syntax and Semantics of Copula Constructions
8. Predication structures in Modern Hebrew identity constructions
9. Copular constructions in English
10. The Meaning of `Be'.