Author: Asya Pereltsvaig
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1402057938
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 171
Book Description
This book provides a detailed study and a novel Minimalist account of copular sentences in Russian, focusing on case marking alternations (nominative vs. instrumental) and drawing a distinction between two types of copular sentences. On the assumption that Merge is defined in the simplest way possible, it is argued that not all syntactic structures are a(nti)symmetrical. One of the copular sentence types is analyzed as a poster child for symmetrical structures, while the other type is treated as asymmetrical. The originality of this study lies in treating the copula in the two types of copular sentences neither as completely identical nor as two distinct lexical items; instead, the two types of copula are derived through the process of semantic bleaching. Furthermore, it is argued that the two types of the copula need to combine with post-copular phrases of different categories. It is concluded that Russian draws a distinction between saturated DPs and unsaturated NPs, in spite of its renowned lack of overt articles.
Copular Sentences in Russian
Author: Asya Pereltsvaig
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1402057938
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 171
Book Description
This book provides a detailed study and a novel Minimalist account of copular sentences in Russian, focusing on case marking alternations (nominative vs. instrumental) and drawing a distinction between two types of copular sentences. On the assumption that Merge is defined in the simplest way possible, it is argued that not all syntactic structures are a(nti)symmetrical. One of the copular sentence types is analyzed as a poster child for symmetrical structures, while the other type is treated as asymmetrical. The originality of this study lies in treating the copula in the two types of copular sentences neither as completely identical nor as two distinct lexical items; instead, the two types of copula are derived through the process of semantic bleaching. Furthermore, it is argued that the two types of the copula need to combine with post-copular phrases of different categories. It is concluded that Russian draws a distinction between saturated DPs and unsaturated NPs, in spite of its renowned lack of overt articles.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1402057938
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 171
Book Description
This book provides a detailed study and a novel Minimalist account of copular sentences in Russian, focusing on case marking alternations (nominative vs. instrumental) and drawing a distinction between two types of copular sentences. On the assumption that Merge is defined in the simplest way possible, it is argued that not all syntactic structures are a(nti)symmetrical. One of the copular sentence types is analyzed as a poster child for symmetrical structures, while the other type is treated as asymmetrical. The originality of this study lies in treating the copula in the two types of copular sentences neither as completely identical nor as two distinct lexical items; instead, the two types of copula are derived through the process of semantic bleaching. Furthermore, it is argued that the two types of the copula need to combine with post-copular phrases of different categories. It is concluded that Russian draws a distinction between saturated DPs and unsaturated NPs, in spite of its renowned lack of overt articles.
Copular Sentences in Russian Vs. Spanish at the Syntax-semantics Interface
Author: Ljudmila Geist
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Languages : en
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Russian Copular Sentences
Author: Victoria Mikhailov
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Category : Grammar, Comparative and general
Languages : en
Pages : 146
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Category : Grammar, Comparative and general
Languages : en
Pages : 146
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On the Syntax of Be-sentences in Russian
Author: Catherine V. Chvany
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Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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Existence: Semantics and Syntax
Author: Ileana Comorovski
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1402061986
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
This collection of essays grew out of the workshop ‘Existence: Semantics and Syntax’, which was held at the University of Nancy 2 in September 2002. The workshop, organized by Ileana Comorovski and Claire Gardent, was supported by a grant from the Reseau ́ de Sciences Cognitives du Grand Est (‘Cognitive Science Network of the Greater East’), which is gratefully acknowledged. The ?rst e- tor wishes to thank Claire Gardent, Fred Landman, and Georges Rebuschi for encouraging her to pursue the publication of a volume based on papers presented at the workshop. Among those who participated in the workshop was Klaus von Heusinger, who joined Ileana Comorovski in editing this volume. Besides papers that developed out of presentations at the workshop, the volume contains invited contributions. We are grateful to Wayles Browne, Fred Landman, Paul Portner, and Georges Rebuschi for their help with reviewing some of the papers. Our thanks go also to a Springer reviewer for the careful reading of the book manuscript. We wish to thank all the participants in the workshop, not only those whose contributions appear in this volume, for making the workshop an int- active and constructive event. Ileana Comorovski Klaus von Heusinger vii ILEANA COMOROVSKI AND KLAUS VON HEUSINGER INTRODUCTION The notion of ‘existence’, which we take to have solid intuitive grounding, plays a central role in the interpretation of at least three types of linguistic constructions: copular clauses, existential sentences, and (in)de?nite noun phrases.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1402061986
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
This collection of essays grew out of the workshop ‘Existence: Semantics and Syntax’, which was held at the University of Nancy 2 in September 2002. The workshop, organized by Ileana Comorovski and Claire Gardent, was supported by a grant from the Reseau ́ de Sciences Cognitives du Grand Est (‘Cognitive Science Network of the Greater East’), which is gratefully acknowledged. The ?rst e- tor wishes to thank Claire Gardent, Fred Landman, and Georges Rebuschi for encouraging her to pursue the publication of a volume based on papers presented at the workshop. Among those who participated in the workshop was Klaus von Heusinger, who joined Ileana Comorovski in editing this volume. Besides papers that developed out of presentations at the workshop, the volume contains invited contributions. We are grateful to Wayles Browne, Fred Landman, Paul Portner, and Georges Rebuschi for their help with reviewing some of the papers. Our thanks go also to a Springer reviewer for the careful reading of the book manuscript. We wish to thank all the participants in the workshop, not only those whose contributions appear in this volume, for making the workshop an int- active and constructive event. Ileana Comorovski Klaus von Heusinger vii ILEANA COMOROVSKI AND KLAUS VON HEUSINGER INTRODUCTION The notion of ‘existence’, which we take to have solid intuitive grounding, plays a central role in the interpretation of at least three types of linguistic constructions: copular clauses, existential sentences, and (in)de?nite noun phrases.
On the Semantics of the Russian Copular Verb "byt"́
Author: Pål Kristian Eriksen
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Category : Bytʹ (The Russian word)
Languages : en
Pages : 152
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Category : Bytʹ (The Russian word)
Languages : en
Pages : 152
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On the Nature of Intra-clausal Relations
Author: Asya Pereltsvaig
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Category : Italian language
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
"The analysis developed in this dissertation accounts for a number of properties of copular sentences, including their interpretation, case-marking patterns, and such syntactic properties as extraction, inversion, binding possibilities and unaccusativity diagnostics." --
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Category : Italian language
Languages : en
Pages : 596
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"The analysis developed in this dissertation accounts for a number of properties of copular sentences, including their interpretation, case-marking patterns, and such syntactic properties as extraction, inversion, binding possibilities and unaccusativity diagnostics." --
The Syntax of Russian
Author: John F. Bailyn
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521885744
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
An essential guide to Russian syntax, which examines major syntactic structures and grammatical puzzles of the language.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521885744
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
An essential guide to Russian syntax, which examines major syntactic structures and grammatical puzzles of the language.
Copular Clauses
Author: Line Mikkelsen
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9789027228093
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
LC Number: 2005054553
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9789027228093
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
LC Number: 2005054553
Copular Clauses
Author: Line Mikkelsen
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027294135
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
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 referential expression is aligned with the most prominent syntactic position, the subject position. Specificational clauses involve an unusual alignment of the predicative expression with subject position. I suggest that this unusual alignment is grounded in information structure: the alignment of the less referential DP with the subject position serves a discourse connective function by letting material that is relatively familiar in the discourse appear before material that is relatively unfamiliar in the discourse. Equative clauses are argued to be fundamentally different.
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027294135
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
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 referential expression is aligned with the most prominent syntactic position, the subject position. Specificational clauses involve an unusual alignment of the predicative expression with subject position. I suggest that this unusual alignment is grounded in information structure: the alignment of the less referential DP with the subject position serves a discourse connective function by letting material that is relatively familiar in the discourse appear before material that is relatively unfamiliar in the discourse. Equative clauses are argued to be fundamentally different.