Copular Sentences In Russian A Theory of Intra-Clausal Relations /

• Main Author: Pereltsvaig, Asya (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2007.
• Series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 70
• Subjects: Linguistics.; Grammar.; Russian language.; Balto-Slavic languages.; Syntax.; Russian.; Theoretical Linguistics.; Slavic and Baltic Languages.

This book provides a detailed study and a novel Minimalist account of copular sentences in Russian, focusing on case marking alternations (nominative vs. instrumental) and drawing a distinction between two types of copular sentences. On the assumption that Merge is defined in the simplest way possib...

Table of Contents:

• Copular Sentences In Russian: An Overview
• Nouns And Their Extended Projections
• Phrase Structural Relations And Merge: Symmetry Or Antisymmetry?
• Thematic Relations
• Case Relations
• Conclusion.