Open AccessOn 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.