Copular Clauses

Mikkelsen, Line

doi:10.1075/la.85

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“…Sentences that exhibit focus and appear to specify which thing is mentioned by the subject of the sentence are specification sentences. To appreciate how specificational sentences differ from predicational sentences, compare the following from Mikkelsen (2011Mikkelsen ( : 1806: Predicational:…”

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“…In the absence of any evidence that different kinds of specificational sentences determine their truth-conditions differently, it is desirable to have a semantics of predicational sentences that unifies all their syntactic forms, including plain and pseudocleft, and a semantics of specificational sentences that unifies all theirs (cf. Mikkelsen 2011Mikkelsen : 1807Felka 2014: 268).…”

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What ‘the number of planets is eight’ means

Knowles

2015

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The following sentence is true only if numbers exist: (1) The number of planets is eight. It is true; hence, numbers exist.' So runs a familiar argument for realism about mathematical objects. But this argument relies on a controversial semantic thesis: that 'The number of planets' and 'eight' are singular terms standing for the number eight, and the copula expresses identity. This is the 'Fregean analysis'.I show that the Fregean analysis is false by providing an analysis of sentences such as(1) that best explains the available linguistic data, and according to which no terms in(1) purport to stand for numbers.

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What ‘the number of planets is eight’ means

Knowles

2015

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“…Equative is taken here in its broad meaning, conflating equative stricto sensu with specificational and identificational -for a recent discussion of these notions within the frame of a typology of copular clauses, see Mikkelsen (2011). Note that this use of equative has nothing to do with the label equative case found in the description of the nominal inflection of Sumerian and a few other languages.…”

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Functive phrases in typological and diachronic perspective

Creissels

2014

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This paper is concerned with a particular semantic type of noun phrases in secondary predicate function, illustrated by as a negotiator in He was sent as a negotiator. It explores the cross-linguistic regularities in the polysemy patterns characteristic of the markers and constructions having the expression of this meaning as one of their possible uses, and discusses the grammaticalization paths in which they are involved.

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“…Pour plus de détails sur ces débats, nous renvoyons le lecteur à den Dikken (2001) et Mikkelsen (2011.…”

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