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Predicates and Their Subjects

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  • © 2004

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Authors:
  1. Susan Rothstein

    1. Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel

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Part of the book series: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy (SLAP, volume 74)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Why ‘Subject’ is a Grammatical Concept

    1. Why ‘Subject’ is a Grammatical Concept

      • Susan Rothstein
      Pages 1-31

  3. The Syntax of Predication

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 33-33
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    2. The Grammatical Theory of Predication

      • Susan Rothstein
      Pages 35-65

    3. The Syntactic Properties of Subjects

      • Susan Rothstein
      Pages 66-83

    4. Predication as a Thematic Relation

      • Susan Rothstein
      Pages 84-99

    5. The Syntactic Forms of Predication

      • Susan Rothstein
      Pages 100-129

  4. The Semantics of Predication

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 131-131
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    2. Interpretation

      • Susan Rothstein
      Pages 133-167

    3. The Semantics of Pleonastics

      • Susan Rothstein
      Pages 168-202

  5. The Syntax and Semantics of Copular Constructions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 203-203
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    2. Predication Structures In Modern Hebrew Identity Constructions

      • Susan Rothstein
      Pages 205-234

    3. Copular Constructions in English

      • Susan Rothstein
      Pages 235-270

  6. The Copula

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 271-271
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    2. The Meaning of ‘be’

      • Susan Rothstein
      Pages 273-338

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 339-352
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About this book

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'.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel

    Susan Rothstein

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Predicates and Their Subjects

  • Authors: Susan Rothstein

  • Series Title: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0690-3

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic Publishers 2004

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-6409-2Published: 30 November 2000

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-2058-2Published: 06 October 2004

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-010-0690-3Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0924-4662

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-034X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 352

  • Topics: Semantics, Syntax, Philosophy of Language

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