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1 online resource (1 volume). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Linguistik aktuell = Linguistics today,
0166-0829 ; v. 85
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Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 85.
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Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Santa Cruz, 2004. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Copular Clauses; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Contents; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; 1. INTRODUCTION; Part I. STRUCTURE; 2. PREDICATE TOPICALIZATION; 3. ALTERNATIVE STRUCTURES FOR SPECIFICATIONAL CLAUSES; Part II. MEANING; 4. DECOMPOSING COPULAR CLAUSES; 5. DETERMINING THE SUBJECT TYPE; 6. THE TYPE OF THE PREDICATE COMPLEMENT; 7. CONSEQUENCES AND EXTENSIONS; Part III. USE; 8. ASPECTS OF USE; 9. AN INTEGRATED ANALYSIS; 10. CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; INDEX; The series Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today. |
| Summary |
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 referenti. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Clauses.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Clauses. |
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax. |
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Verb phrase.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Verb phrase. |
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Electronic books.
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Academic theses.
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Academic theses.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Mikkelsen, Line. Copular clauses. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA : J. Benjamins, 2005 (DLC) 2005054553 |
| ISBN |
9789027294135 (electronic book) |
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9027294135 (electronic book) |
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9789027228093 (alkaline paper) |
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9027228094 (alkaline paper) |
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128215642X |
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9781282156425 |
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9027228094 (alkaline paper) |
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