文档介绍：EXISTENCE: SEMANTICS AND SYNTAX
STUDIES IN LINGUISTICS AND PHILOSOPHY
VOLUME 84
Managing Editors
GENNARO CHIERCHIA, University of Milan
KAI VON FINTEL, ., Cambridge
F. JEFFREY PELLETIER, Simon Fraser University
Editorial Board
JOHAN VAN BENTHEM, University of Amsterdam
GREGORY N. CARLSON, University of Rochester
DAVID DOWTY, Ohio State University, Columbus
GERALD GAZDAR, University of Sussex, Brighton
IRENE HEIM , ., Cambridge
EWAN KLEIN, University of Edinburgh
BILL LADUSAW, University of California, Santa Cruz
TERRENCE PARSONS , University of California, Irvine
The titles published in this series are listed at the end of this volume.
EXISTENCE:
SEMANTICS AND SYNTAX
edited by
OROVSKI
Université Nancy RS,
France
and
KLAUS VON HEUSINGER
Universität Stuttgart,
Germany
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface vii
orovski and Klaus von Heusinger 1
Introduction
Part I THE INTERPRETATION OF THE COPULA
Ronnie Cann 13
Towards a Dynamic Account of BE in English
orovski 49
Constituent Questions and the Copula of Specification
Ljudmila Geist 79
Predication and Equation in Copular Sentences: Russian vs. English
Claudia Maienborn 107
On Davidsonian and Kimian States
Part II EXISTENTIAL SENTENCES ACROSS LANGUAGES
Jianhua Hu