16.3610, Books: Semantics/Syntax, English/Hebrew: Rothstein

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Date: 15-Aug-2005
From: Jasper de Vaal < jasper.devaal at springer-sbm.com >
Subject: Predicates and Their Subjects: Rothstein 

	
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Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 13:38:34
From: Jasper de Vaal < jasper.devaal at springer-sbm.com >
Subject: Predicates and Their Subjects: Rothstein 
 



Title: Predicates and Their Subjects 
Series Title: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy 74  

Publication Year: 2004 
Publisher: Springer
	   http://www.springeronline.com
	
Author: Susan Rothstein, Bar-Ilan University

Paperback: ISBN: 1402020589 Pages: 372 Price: Europe EURO 35.00
Paperback: ISBN: 1402020589 Pages: 372 Price: U.S. $ 39.00
Paperback: ISBN: 1402020589 Pages: 372 Price: U.K. £ 24.00


Abstract:

Predicates and their Subjects is an in-depth study of the syntax-semantics
interface focusing on the structure of the subject-predicate relation.
Starting from where the author's 1983 dissertation left off, the book
argues that there is syntactic constraint that clauses (small and tensed)
are constructed out of a one-place unsaturated expression, the predicate,
which must be applied to a syntactic argument, its subject. The author
shows that this predication relation cannot be reduced to a thematic
relation or a projection of argument structure, but must be a purely
syntactic constraint. Chapters in the book show how the syntactic
predication relation is semantically interpreted, and how the predication
relation explains constraints on DP-raising and on the distribution of
pleonastics in English. The second half of the book extends the theory of
predication to cover copular constructions; it includes an account of the
structure of small clauses in Hebrew, of the use of 'be' in predicative and
identity sentences in English, and concludes with a study of the meaning of
the verb 'be'. 



Linguistic Field(s): Semantics
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): English (eng)
                     Hebrew (heb)


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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