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Copular clauses specification, predication and equation

This book is concerned with a class of copular clauses known as specificational clauses, and its relation to other kinds of copular structures, predicational and equative clauses in particular. Based on evidence from Danish and English, I argue that specificational clauses involve the same core predication structure as predicational clauses -- one which combines a referential and a predicative expression to form a minimal predicational unit -- but differ in how the predicational core is realized syntactically. Predicational copular clauses represent the canonical realization, where the referenti.

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