TY - BOOK ID - 22961673 TI - Predicates and their subjects PY - 2000 VL - 74 SN - 0792364090 1402020589 9401006903 PB - Dordrecht Boston Kluwer DB - UniCat KW - Semantics KW - Semantiek KW - Sémantique KW - Sémasiologie KW - Sujet et prédicat KW - Topic and comment KW - Sujet et prédicat KW - Grammar, Comparative and general KW - 801.56 KW - Formal semantics KW - Semasiology KW - Semiology (Semantics) KW - Comparative linguistics KW - Information theory KW - Language and languages KW - Lexicology KW - Meaning (Psychology) KW - 801.56 Syntaxis. Semantiek KW - Syntaxis. Semantiek KW - Functional sentence perspective (Grammar) KW - Predicate and subject (Grammar) KW - Subject and predicate (Grammar) KW - Theme and rheme KW - Topic and comment (Grammar) KW - Focus (Linguistics) KW - Subject and predicate KW - Syntax KW - Lexicology. Semantics KW - Grammar KW - Topic and comment. KW - Sémantique KW - Grammar [Comparative and general ] KW - Semantics. KW - Syntax. KW - Language and languages—Philosophy. KW - Philosophy of Language. KW - Linguistics KW - Philology UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:22961673 AB - 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'. ER -