Specificational and Predicative Clauses : : A Functional-Cognitive Account / / Wout Van Praet.
In studies of copular clauses, the relation between specificational and predicative clauses has been a contentious issue. While most studies agree on the analysis of predicative clauses, specificational clauses have sparked much debate. A key concern is how specificational clauses with indefinite ‘v...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (XI, 329 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgements
- Abstract
- Contents
- Key to transcription conventions
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 Corpus compilation and methodology
- Chapter 3 A functional-structural analysis of predicative and specificational clauses
- Chapter 4 The indefinite NP in predicative and specificational copular clauses
- Chapter 5 Aspect and modality in the copular clause
- Chapter 6 The prosodically coded information structure of specificational and predicative copular clauses
- Chapter 7 The discourse embedding of predicative and specificational clauses
- Conclusion
- References
- Index