On Specification Predication and the derivation of copular to-clauses in Polish
The paper offers a consistently derivational account of Polish predicational and specificational copular clauses with the occurrence of a particle to instead of a verbal copula być (‘be’). The particle to is given the status of a predicative head with the potential of designating a phrase in its c-c...
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| description | The paper offers a consistently derivational account of Polish predicational and specificational copular clauses with the occurrence of a particle to instead of a verbal copula być (‘be’). The particle to is given the status of a predicative head with the potential of designating a phrase in its c-command domain as a specification predicate. Such a phrase is then interpreted as the focus at the C-I interface. Thus, a view is promoted in which the focus, a category of information structure, is not directly coded in narrow syntax, but is rather an interpretive outcome of a more general syntactic relation, referred to as Specification Predication. This view has been inspired by Kiss’s (2006, 2010) idea that focusing is predication but it substantially differs from her approach. The analysis is limited to copular-to clauses, but it is suggested to have a potential for the account of two more syntactic types with the occurrence of the particle to, namely, so-called to-clefts, and topic-to sentences. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8397f632c46f4eb0a95714cd384213de2022-12-21T18:38:18ZengSciendoStudia Anglica Posnaniensia0081-62722082-51022015-12-01504256610.1515/stap-2015-0032stap-2015-0032On Specification Predication and the derivation of copular to-clauses in PolishTajsner Przemysław0Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University in PoznańThe paper offers a consistently derivational account of Polish predicational and specificational copular clauses with the occurrence of a particle to instead of a verbal copula być (‘be’). The particle to is given the status of a predicative head with the potential of designating a phrase in its c-command domain as a specification predicate. Such a phrase is then interpreted as the focus at the C-I interface. Thus, a view is promoted in which the focus, a category of information structure, is not directly coded in narrow syntax, but is rather an interpretive outcome of a more general syntactic relation, referred to as Specification Predication. This view has been inspired by Kiss’s (2006, 2010) idea that focusing is predication but it substantially differs from her approach. The analysis is limited to copular-to clauses, but it is suggested to have a potential for the account of two more syntactic types with the occurrence of the particle to, namely, so-called to-clefts, and topic-to sentences.https://doi.org/10.1515/stap-2015-0032copulacopular clausespredicationspecificationfocusderivation |
| spellingShingle | Tajsner Przemysław On Specification Predication and the derivation of copular to-clauses in Polish Studia Anglica Posnaniensia copula copular clauses predication specification focus derivation |
| title | On Specification Predication and the derivation of copular to-clauses in Polish |
| title_full | On Specification Predication and the derivation of copular to-clauses in Polish |
| title_fullStr | On Specification Predication and the derivation of copular to-clauses in Polish |
| title_full_unstemmed | On Specification Predication and the derivation of copular to-clauses in Polish |
| title_short | On Specification Predication and the derivation of copular to-clauses in Polish |
| title_sort | on specification predication and the derivation of copular to clauses in polish |
| topic | copula copular clauses predication specification focus derivation |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1515/stap-2015-0032 |
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