This book considers the syntax and semantics of non-verbal predicates (i.e., nominal, adjectival and prepositional predicates) in copular sentences. Isabelle Roy explores how a single structure for predication can account for the different interpretations of non-verbal predicates. The book departs from earlier studies by arguing in favor of a ternary distinction between defining / characterizing / situation-descriptive predicates rather than the more common stage-level/individual distinction.

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Take a bite out of tedious studying and sink your teeth into the newest test-prep sensation. Join Bella, Jacob, and Edward as you learn more than 600 vocabulary words for the SAT, ACT, GED, and SSAT! With hundreds of new vocabulary words, this book can be used completely on its own or as a follow-up to DefiningTwilight, Defining New Moon, and Defining Eclipse.

The most captivating way to master vocabulary for the SAT, ACT, GED, and SSAT exams
Join Bella, Jacob, and Edward as you learn more than 600 vocabulary words for the SAT, ACT, GED, and SSAT! With hundreds of new vocabulary words, this book can be used completely on its own or as a follow-up to DefiningTwilight and Defining New Moon.

The Defining Decade - Why Your Twenties Matter

Our twenties are a time when the things we do–and the things we don’t do–will have an enormous effect across years and even generations to come.

Defining Literary Criticism: Scholarship, Authority and the Possession of Literary Knowledge, 1880-2002

Outlining the controversies that have surrounded the academic discipline of English Literature since its institutionalization in the late nineteenth century, this important book draws on a range of archival sources.