Relators and Linkers, Volume 47: The Syntax of Predication, Predicate Inversion, and Copulas

by Marcel Den Dikken

Book Overview

In Relators and Linkers, Marcel den Dikken presents a syntax of predication and the inversion of the predicate around its subject, emphasizing meaningless elements (elements with no semantic load) that play an essential role in the establishment and syntactic manipulation of predication relationships. One such element, the RELATOR, mediates the relationship between a predicate and its subject in the base representation of predication structures...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262541866
• ISBN13: 9780262541862
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 363 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher