On the copula: From a Fregean to a Montagovian treatment

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https://doi.org/10.21248/hpsg.2009.18

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The analysis of the copula as a semantically vacuous word in mainstream HPSG is appropriate for some of its uses, such as the progressive and the passive, but not for its use in clauses with a predicative complement. In such clauses the copula denotes a relation of coreference between the indices of the subject and the predicative complement.

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2009-10-09

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Van Eynde, Frank. 2009. On the copula: From a Fregean to a Montagovian treatment. Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar 359–375. (doi:10.21248/hpsg.2009.18) (https://proceedings.hpsg.xyz/article/view/728) (Accessed March 2, 2025.)

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2009: Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar

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Conference papers