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The Raising of Predicates: Predicative Noun Phrases and the Theory of Clause Structure

By Andrea Moro

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1997
ISBN
0521562333, 9780521562331
LCC
P297 .M67 1997
Open Library ID
OL971016M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6014463 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
Pages
329\329
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

One of the basic premises of the theory of syntax is that clause structures can be minimally identified as containing a verb phrase, playing the role of predicate, and a noun phrase, playing the role of subject. In this study Andrea Moro identifies a new category of copular sentences, namely inverse copular sentences, where the predicative noun phrase occupies the position that is canonically reserved for subjects. In the process, he sheds new light on such classical issues as the distribution and nature of expletives, locality theory and cliticization phenomena.

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