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Syntactic and Semantic Variation in Copular Sentences
Language: en
Pages: 177
Authors: Daniel J. Wilson
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-07-16 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

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This book presents a novel account of syntactic and semantic variation in copular and existential sentences in Classical Hebrew. Like many languages, the system
Copular Clauses
Language: en
Pages: 222
Authors: Line Mikkelsen
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-10-13 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

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This book is concerned with a class of copular clauses known as specificational clauses, and its relation to other kinds of copular structures, predicational an
The Grammar of Copulas Across Languages
Language: en
Pages: 320
Authors: MarĂ­a J. Arche
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-01-03 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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This volume presents a crosslinguistic survey of the current theoretical debates around copular constructions from a generative perspective. Following an introd
Existential Sentences
Language: en
Pages: 269
Authors: Michael Lumsden
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-02-03 - Publisher: Routledge

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What is the relationship between the structure of existential sentences and their meaning? How do hearers interpret existential sentences using pragmatic assump
Definiteness Effects
Language: en
Pages: 475
Authors: Susann Fischer
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-08-17 - Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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This volume explores in detail the empirical and conceptual content of the definiteness effect in grammar. It brings together a variety of relevant observations