Edited by Asaf Bachrach, Isabelle Roy and Linnaea Stockall
While the argument structure of verbs has long been a central issue in linguistic research of all varieties and continues to be a vexed area of research across a wide range of theoretical and empirical approaches, the inter-disciplinary perspective and dialogue remain largely under explored. This… read more
This paper is a contribution to the debate on the nature and role of copulas in nonverbal predication. The aim is to provide a comprehensive analysis of copulas that takes into account the diversity of forms copulas may take across languages (verbal copula, particle copula, absence of copula).… read more
French être en train de (êetd, lit. ‘be.inf in the midst of’), generally considered to be the French progressive, has a reading in which the speaker expresses a negative attitude toward the described event. However, not all readings have this expressive meaning. Curiously, the “neutral” reading is… read more
On the basis of data from English, French, Hebrew and Spanish, this paper argues that (apparent) adjectives which function as nominals belong to two distinct classes. One small class consists of true nouns that are homophonous with adjectives but are not derived from them. The other one consists of… read more
