Chapter Criterial Freezing in small clauses and the cartography of copular constructions

• Main Author: Shlonsky, Ur (auth)
• Other Authors: Rizzi, Luigi (auth), Hartmann, Jutta (Editor), Jäger, Marion (Editor), Kehl, Andreas (Editor), Konietzko, Andreas (Editor), Winkler, Susanne (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2018
• Subjects: linguistics; Grammar, syntax & morphology; Criterial freezing; copula; Hebrew copular sentence; labeling; Subject Criterion; small clause; subject position(s); PRON; Inverse copular sentence; Focus; Smuggling
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

Criterial Freezing is a particular instance of freezing arising in criterial configurations, i.e., in configurations dedicated to the expression of scope-discourse properties. Recent proposals (e.g., Rizzi 2015a,b) try to deduce criterial freezing effects from more elementary ingredients of linguist...