Overview

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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Author:   María J. Arche (Associate Professor of Linguistics & Spanish, Senior Lecturer in Linguistics and Spanish, University of Greenwich) ,  Antonio Fábregas (Professor of Hispanic Linguistics, Professor of Hispanic Linguistics, University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway) ,  Rafael Marín (Researcher in Linguistics, Researcher in Linguistics, CNRS/University of Lille)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Volume:   73
Dimensions:   Width: 16.70cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.448kg
ISBN:  

9780198829867

ISBN 10:   0198829868
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   28 February 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: María J. Arche, Antonio Fábregas, and Rafael Marín: Main questions in the study of copulas: Categories, structures and operations 2: Nicholas Welch: Copulas and light verbs as spellouts of argument structure: Evidence from Dene languages 3: Teresa O'Neill: The support copula in the left periphery 4: Kwang-sup Kim: The copula as a nominative case marker 5: Susana Bejar, Jessica Denniss, Arsalan Kahnemuyipour, and Tomohiro Yokoyama: Number matching in binomial small clauses 6: Anna Bondaruk: Agreement with the post-verbal DP in Polish dual copula clauses 7: Jitka Barto%sová and Ivona Ku%cerová: On person, animacy, and copular agreement in Czech 8: Isabelle Roy and Ur Shlonsky: Aspects of the syntax of ce in French copular sentences 9: Olga Borik: The role of the copula in the periphrastic passives in Russian 10: Luis Sáez: The copula in certain Caribbean Spanish focus constructions 11: Hannah Gibson, Rozenn Guérois, and Lutz Marten: Variation in Bantu copula constructions 12: Nicoletta Loccioni: Predicational and specificational copular sentences in Logoori References

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The Grammar of Copulas across Languages is a valuable addition to the literature on copulas...Reading this book was rewarding to me, and I believe it is capable of informing new works in this challenging field. * Aroldo Leal de Andrade, Universidade Federal De Minas Gerais (UFMG), Linguist List *

Author Information

María J. Arche is Associate Professor of Linguistics & Spanish at the University of Greenwich. Her research focuses on the syntax and semantics of tense and aspect and their acquisition. She is the author of Individuals in Time: Tense, Aspect and the Individual/Stage Distinction (Benjamins, 2006) and co-editor of The Grammar Dimension in Instructed Second Language Learning (Bloomsbury, 2013), and has edited special issues of Natural Language and Linguistic Theory and Lingua on aspect and argument structure. Antonio Fábregas is Full Professor of Hispanic Linguistics at the University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway. His research concentrates on the syntax and semantics of word-internal structures, with particular attention to grammatical categories, aspect and tense, and the properties of affixes. He is the co-author of Morphology: From Data to Theories (Edinburgh University Press, 2012) and co-editor of Contemporary Linguistic Parameters (Bloomsbury, 2015). Rafael Marín is Researcher in Linguistics at the STL laboratory, CNRS / Université de Lille 3. His work focuses on lexical aspect and related phenomena. He has mainly worked on non-verbal predication (adjectives and participles, copular constructions), psychological predicates, and morphology-semantics interface. Since 2016, he has been the Director of the Catalan Foundation for Research and Innovation.

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