The Grammar of Copulas Across Languages

Edited by Maria J. Arche, Antonio Fabregas, and Rafael Marin

Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics

Adopts a twofold approach, combining extensive empirical data with detailed theoretical analyses
Sheds lights on key topics in theoretical linguistics, particularly at the syntax-semantics interface
Presents data from a range of languages, including many that are less widely studied

The Grammar of Copulas Across Languages

Edited by Maria J. Arche, Antonio Fabregas, and Rafael Marin

Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics

Description

This volume presents a crosslinguistic survey of the current theoretical debates around copular constructions from a generative perspective. Following an introduction to the main questions surrounding the analysis and categorization of copulas, the chapters address a range of key topics including the existence of more than one copular form in certain languages, the factors determining the presence or absence of a copula, and the morphology of copular forms. The team of expert contributors present new theoretical proposals regarding the formal mechanisms behind the behaviour and patterns observed in copulas in a wide range of typologically diverse languages, including Czech, French, Korean, and languages from the Dene and Bantu families. Their findings have implications beyond the study of copulas and shed more light on issues such as agreement relations, the nature of grammatical categories, and nominal predicates in syntax and semantics.

The Grammar of Copulas Across Languages

Edited by Maria J. Arche, Antonio Fabregas, and Rafael Marin

Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics

1. Main questions in the study of copulas: Categories, structures and operations, Maria J. Arche, Antonio Fabregas, and Rafael Marin
2. Copulas and light verbs as spellouts of argument structure: Evidence from Dene languages, Nicholas Welch
3. The support copula in the left periphery, Teresa O'Neill
4. The copula as a nominative case marker, Kwang-sup Kim
5. Number matching in binomial small clauses, Susana Bejar, Jessica Denniss, Arsalan Kahnemuyipour, and Tomohiro Yokoyama
6. Agreement with the post-verbal DP in Polish dual copula clauses, Anna Bondaruk
7. On person, animacy, and copular agreement in Czech, Jitka Bartošova and Ivona Ku%cerova
8. Aspects of the syntax of ce in French copular sentences, Isabelle Roy and Ur Shlonsky
9. The role of the copula in the periphrastic passives in Russian, Olga Borik
10. The copula in certain Caribbean Spanish focus constructions, Luis Saez
11. Variation in Bantu copula constructions, Hannah Gibson, Rozenn Guerois, and Lutz Marten
12. Predicational and specificational copular sentences in Logoori, Nicoletta Loccioni
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The Grammar of Copulas Across Languages

Edited by Maria J. Arche, Antonio Fabregas, and Rafael Marin

Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics

Author Information

Maria J. Arche is Associate Professor of Linguistics & Spanish at the University of Greenwich. Her research focuses on the syntax and semantics of tense and aspect and their acquisition. She is the author of Individuals in Time: Tense, Aspect and the Individual/Stage Distinction (Benjamins, 2006) and co-editor of The Grammar Dimension in Instructed Second Language Learning (Bloomsbury, 2013), and has edited special issues of Natural Language and Linguistic Theory and Lingua on aspect and argument structure.

Antonio Fabregas is Full Professor of Hispanic Linguistics at the University of Tromso - The Arctic University of Norway. His research concentrates on the syntax and semantics of word-internal structures, with particular attention to grammatical categories, aspect and tense, and the properties of affixes. He is the co-author of Morphology: From Data to Theories (Edinburgh University Press, 2012) and co-editor of Contemporary Linguistic Parameters (Bloomsbury, 2015).

Rafael Marin is Researcher in Linguistics at the STL laboratory, CNRS / Universite de Lille 3. His work focuses on lexical aspect and related phenomena. He has mainly worked on non-verbal predication (adjectives and participles, copular constructions), psychological predicates, and morphology-semantics interface. Since 2016, he has been the Director of the Catalan Foundation for Research and Innovation.

Contributors:

Maria J. Arche, University of Greenwich
Jitka Bartošova, McMaster University
Susana Bejar, University of Toronto
Anna Bondaruk, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin
Olga Borik, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia, Madrid
Jessica Denniss, University of Toronto
Antonio Fabregas, University of Tromso - The Arctic University of Norway
Hannah Gibson, University of Essex
Rozenn Guerois, Ghent University
Arsalan Kahnemuyipour, University of Toronto
Kwang-sup Kim, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies
Ivona Ku%cerova, McMaster University
Nicoletta Loccioni, University of California, Los Angeles
Rafael Marin, CNRS/Universite de Lille 3
Lutz Marten, SOAS, University of London
Teresa O'Neill, City University of New York
Isabelle Roy, University of Paris VIII
Luis Saez, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Ur Shlonsky, University of Geneva
Nicholas Welch, McMaster University and University of Toronto
Tomohiro Yokoyama, University of Toronto