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The Raising of Predicates: Predicative Noun Phrases and the Theory of Clause Structure
Author(s): Andrea Moro (Author)
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date: March 16, 2006
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 332 pages
- ISBN-10: 0671558706
- ISBN-13: 9780671558703
Book Description
One of the basic premises of the theory of syntax is that clause structures can be minimally identified as containing a verb phrase, playing the role of predicate, and a noun phrase, playing the role of subject. In this study Andrea Moro identifies a new category of copular sentences, namely inverse copular sentences, where the predicative noun phrase occupies the position that is canonically reserved for subjects. In the process, he sheds new light on such classical issues as the distribution and nature of expletives, locality theory and cliticization phenomena.
