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On the copula: From a Fregean to a Montagovian treatment

Author(s) -

Frank Van Eynde

Publication year - 2009

Publication title -

proceedings of the international conference on head-driven phrase structure grammar

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 1535-1793

DOI - 10.21248/hpsg.2009.18

Subject(s) - predicative expression , copula (linguistics) , coreference , complement (music) , linguistics , natural language processing , computer science , artificial intelligence , mathematics , philosophy , biochemistry , chemistry , complementation , resolution (logic) , gene , phenotype

The analysis of the copula as a semantically vacuous word in mainstreamHPSG is appropriate for some of its uses, such as the progressive andthe passive, but not for its use in clauses with a predicative complement.In such clauses the copula denotes a relationof coreference between the indices of the subject and the predicativecomplement.

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