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  • Specification, equation, and agreement in copular sentences

  • Caroline Heycock
  • Journal:
    Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique / Volume 57 / Issue 2 / July 2012
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    27 June 2016, pp. 209-240

  • This article presents new data from a number of Germanic languages concerning the agreement patterns found in copular clauses that contain two nominais; in both clauses with specificational readings (such as The problem is your parents) and those with what are here termed readings of assumed identity (such as If I were you or In my dream I was you). It is argued that the specificational sentences involve asymmetric equative structures where one nominal is interpreted as in a concealed question, and that the cross-linguistic differences in agreement patterns found in the languages considered follow from the copula lexicalizing either Tense or a lower head.