What information structure tells us about individual/stage-level predicates

• DOI: 10.7557/1.1.1.2293
• Publication Date: 2012-08-07T05:30:57Z
• Authors: Angel Jiménez-Fer...
• Keywords: Argument (complex analysis); Margin (machine learning)

<p class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 32.85pt; margin-left: 1cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";" lang="EN-GB">The goal of this paper is to explore the lexical-syntactic structure copulative constructions and argument small clauses within framework proposed by Gallego & Uriagereka (2011) for Individual-Level/Stage-Level distinction (Carlson 1988, Kratzer 1995) implement their theory claiming that there a crucial correlation between IL/SL information structure. I argue IL subjects are topics (and hence categorical construction, following Kuroda 1972, Milsark 1977 Raposo 1995), whereas in SL topic may either be subject or silent spatiotemporal (their construction being thetic). show nature contexts specificity subextraction. ultimately derive IS from identify type here as an Aboutness-Topic (in sense Frascarelli Hinterhölzl 2007, Lambrecht 1994, Erteschik-Shir 1997).</span></p><p lang="EN-GB"><br /></span></p> class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" lang="EN-GB"><strong>Keywords:</strong> individual-level/stage-level predicates, copulas, clause, central-coincidence/terminal coincidence prepositions, topic, specificity, subextraction</span></p>