The grammar of copulas across languages / edited by María J. Arche, Antonio Fábregas, and Rafael Marín

Published: Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.
Edition: First edition.
Physical Description: xvi, 285 pages ; 24 cm.
Additional Creators: Arche, María J., Fábregas, Antonio, and Marín, R. (Rafael)

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Contents

Machine generated contents note: 1.Main questions in the study of copulas: Categories, structures, and operations / Rafael Marin -- 2.Copulas and light verbs as spellouts of argument structure: Evidence from Dene languages / Nicholas Welch -- 3.The support copula in the left periphery / Teresa O'Neill -- 4.The copula as a nominative Case marker / Kwang-sup Kim -- 5.Number matching in binominal small clauses / Tomohiro Yokoyama -- 6.Agreement with the post-verbal DP in Polish dual copula clauses / Anna Bondaruk -- 7.On person, animacy, and copular agreement in Czech / Ivona Kuderova -- 8.Aspects of the syntax of ce in French copular sentences / Ur Shlonsky -- 9.The role of the copula in periphrastic passives in Russian / Olga Borik -- 10.The copula in certain Caribbean Spanish focus constructions / Luis Saez -- 11.Variation in Bantu copula constructions / Lutz Marten -- 12.Predicational and specificational copular sentences in Logoori / Nicoletta Loccioni.

Summary

This volume presents a crosslinguistic survey of the current theoretical debates around copular constructions from a generative perspective. Following an introduction to the main questions surrounding the analysis and categorization of copulas, the chapters address a range of key topics including the existence of more than one copular form in certain languages, the factors determining the presence or absence of a copula, and the morphology of copular forms. The team of expert contributors present new theoretical proposals regarding the formal mechanisms behind the behaviour and patterns observed in copulas in a wide range of typologically diverse languages, including Czech, French, Korean, and languages from the Dene and Bantu families. Their findings have implications beyond the study of copulas and shed more light on issues such as agreement relations, the nature of grammatical categories, and nominal predicates in syntax and semantics.

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Grammar, Comparative and general—Copula

ISBN

0198829868 paperback
9780198829867 paperback
9780198829850 hardcover
019882985X hardcover

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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