Copular and existential constructions

• Autores: Delia Bentley, Francesco Maria Ciconte
• Localización: The Oxford Guide to the Romance Languages / Adam Ledgeway (ed. lit.), Martin Maiden (ed. lit.), 2016, ISBN 9780199677108, págs. 847-859
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The main goal of this chapter is critically to address from a comparative perspective some of the most important issues in Romance copular and existential constructions, covering such areas as the range of Romance copulas and their semantico-syntactic distribution; canonical vs inverse copular sentences; relationship between locative and existential copular predications; variation in existential copulas and their constraints on the nature of the pivot; subject markedness; sources, nature, and distribution of locative adverbials; definiteness effects; variation in verb agreement with locative or pivot. Specific topics dealt with include: copular constructions (attributive, locative, and possessive), inverse copular constructions, and existential constructions.