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Predicates and Their Subjects
Susan Deborah Rothstein
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Paperback. An in-depth study of the syntax-semantics interface focusing on the structure of the subject-predicate relation. It shows how the syntactic predication relation is semantically interpreted, and how the predication relation explains constraints on DP-raising and on the distribution of pleonastics in English. Series: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy. Num Pages: 367 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 1150.
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 constructed out of a one-place unsaturated expression, the predicate, which must be applied to a syntactic argument, its subject. The author shows that this predication relation cannot be reduced to a thematic relation or a projection of argument structure, but must be a purely syntactic constraint. Chapters in the book show how the syntactic predication relation is ... Read more
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 constructed out of a one-place unsaturated expression, the predicate, which must be applied to a syntactic argument, its subject. The author shows that this predication relation cannot be reduced to a thematic relation or a projection of argument structure, but must be a purely syntactic constraint. Chapters in the book show how the syntactic predication relation is ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
367
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781402020582
SKU
V9781402020582
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