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Predication and Equation
- Linguistic Inquiry
- The MIT Press
- Volume 34, Number 3, Summer 2003
- pp. 325-359
- Article
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In this article, we argue that a structural distinction between predicational and equative copular clauses is illusory. All semantic predicational relationships are constructed asymmetrically via a syntactic predicational head; differences reduce to whether this head bears an event variable or not. This allows us to maintain a restrictive view of the syntax-semantics interface in the face of apparently recalcitrant data from Scottish Gaelic.