What information structure tells us about individual/stage-level predicates

The goal of this paper is to explore the lexical-syntactic structure of copulative constructions and argument small clauses within the framework proposed by Gallego & Uriagereka (2011) for the Individual-Level/Stage-Level distinction (Carlson 1988, Kratzer 1995) and implement their theory by cla...

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Main Author: Angel Jiménez-Fernández
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Septentrio Academic Publishing 2012-07-01
Series:Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics
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Online Access:http://www.ub.uit.no/baser/septentrio/index.php/borealis/article/view/2293