Predicate nominals in eventive copular sentences

• Autores: Isabelle Roy
• Localización: Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca Julio de Urquijo: International journal of basque linguistics and philology, ISSN 0582-6152, Vol. 39, Nº. 2, 2005 (Ejemplar dedicado a: A new relay of linguistics), págs. 213-235
• Idioma: inglés
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  • This paper presents a comparative study of predicate nominals in eventive copular sentences. I am concerned with languages that grammaticalize the contrast between eventive and non-eventive copular sentences, and I discuss here three cases: the optionality of the indefinite article in French and German, the two verbs �to be� in Irish, and case marking in Russian.