The silence of exclamation: exclamative constructions, singular indefinite predicates and silent nouns
The goal of this analysis is to compare constructions containing singular indefinite predicates (SIPs) of the type ‘Ion e un ţăran/Ion is a peasant’ with N of N constructions of the type ‘ţăranul de Ion’/peasant-the of Ion’ and explore the role that the degree operator and silent nouns play. The inv...
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| Language: | English |
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Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti
2008-01-01
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| Series: | Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics |
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| Online Access: | http://bwpl.unibuc.ro/index.pl/the_silence_of_exclamation_exclamative_constructions_singular_indefinite_predicates_and_silent_nouns |