The Grammar of Copulas Across Languages
Maria J. Arche, "The Grammar of Copulas Across Languages "
English | ISBN: 0198829868 | 2019 | 304 pages | PDF | 4 MB
English | ISBN: 0198829868 | 2019 | 304 pages | PDF | 4 MB
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.
Read more