TY  - CHAP
A1  - Jäger, Gerhard
T1  - Towards an explanation of copula effects
T2  - Copular and aux-constructions, Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, Berlin, 2000; ZAS papers in linguistics Vol. 16
N2  - 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".
KW  - Kontrastive Linguistik
KW  - Kopula
KW  - Linguistik
KW  - Semantik
KW  - Sprachtypologie
KW  - Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft
Y1  - 2000
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/30724
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-307249
UR  - http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/210.html
SN  - 1435-9588
SN  - 0947-7055
VL  - 16
SP  - 1
EP  - 30
PB  - Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung
CY  - Berlin
ER  -