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Publication details [#27903]

Zaring, Laurie. 1996. "Two be or not two be": Identity, predication and the Welsh copula. Linguistics and Philosophy 19 (1) : 103–142.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

copula | predicate | semantics1 | syntax1 | universal grammar

Language as a subject

Welsh

Place, Publisher

Kluwer

ISBN

0165-0157

Journal WWW

www.kluweronline.com/

Annotation

This paper presents evidence from the morphosyntax of the modern Welsh copula and its use in pseudoclefts, that the dual-be approach which incorporates two separate copular items of predication and identity, must be available to universal grammar.