Acknowledgments Introduction: four apparently unrelated empirical domains 1. The anomaly of copular sentences: the raising of predicates 2. The syntax of ci 3. Are there parameters in semantics? The defining properties of existential sentences 4. The 'quasi-copula': on the role of finite clauses in seem-sentences 5. A view beyond: unaccusativity as an epiphenomenon Appendix Notes References Index.
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