Towards an explanation of copula effects
- This paper deals with a series of semantic contrasts between the copula "be" and the preposition "as", two functional elements that both head elementary predication structures. It will be argued that the meaning of "as" is a type lowering device shifting the meaning of its complement NP from generalized quantifier type to property type (where properties are conceived as relations between individuals and situations), while the copula "be" induces a type coercion from (partial) situations to (total) possible worlds. Paired with van der Sandt's 1992 theory of presupposition accommodation, these assumptions will account for the observed contrasts between "as" and "be".
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| Author: | Gerhard Jäger |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-307249 |
| URL: | http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/210.html |
| ISSN: | 1435-9588 |
| ISSN: | 0947-7055 |
| Parent Title (English): | Copular and aux-constructions, Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, Berlin, 2000; ZAS papers in linguistics Vol. 16 |
| Publisher: | Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung |
| Place of publication: | Berlin |
| Document Type: | Part of a Book |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2013/10/29 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2000 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2013/10/29 |
| GND Keyword: | Kontrastive Linguistik; Kopula; Linguistik; Semantik; Sprachtypologie; Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft |
| Volume: | 16 |
| Page Number: | 30 |
| First Page: | 1 |
| Last Page: | 30 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 378307177 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 41 Linguistik / 410 Linguistik |
| Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
| Linguistik-Klassifikation: | Linguistik-Klassifikation: Sprachtypologie / Language typology |
| Linguistik-Klassifikation: Semantik / Semantics | |
| Linguistik-Klassifikation: Kontrastive Linguistik / Contrastive linguistics | |
| Zeitschriften / Jahresberichte: | ZAS papers in linguistics : ZASPiL / ZASPiL 16 = Papers on copula and AUX-constructions |
| : | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-306583 |
| Licence (German): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
