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      • Andrea Moro, Istituto Scientifico H. San Raffaele, Milan
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      September 2009
      January 1997
      ISBN:
      9780511519956
      9780521562331
      9780521024785
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511519956
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.623kg, 332 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.514kg, 332 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Grammar and Syntax, English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Language and Linguistics
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Linguistics (80)
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    Subjects:
    Grammar and Syntax, English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Language and Linguistics
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Linguistics (80)
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    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 noun phrase which co-occurs with the verb phrase plays the role of predicate, occupying the position which is canonically reserved for subjects, and the subject is embedded in the verb phrase. The consequences of such a discovery are pervasive. Four distinct areas of syntax are unified into a unique natural class. Along with inverse copular sentences, existential sentences, sentences with seem and unaccusative constructions are analysed as involving the raising of a predicative noun phrase to the most prominent position in the clause structure. In addition, new light is shed on some classical issues such as the distribution and nature of expletives, locality theory, cliticization phenomena, possessive constructions, and the cross-linguistic variations of the Definiteness Effect.

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    ‘… an illuminating theory of predicate nominal and other copular constructions.‘

    Noam Chomsky

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