%0 Journal Article
%T What information structure tells us about individual/stage-level predicates
%A Angel Jim¨Śnez-Fern¨˘ndez
%J Borealis : An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics
%D 2012
%I 
%R 10.7557/1.1.1.2293
%X The goal of this paper is to explore the lexical-syntactic structure of copulative constructions and argument small clauses within the framework proposed by Gallego & Uriagereka (2011) for the Individual-Level/Stage-Level distinction (Carlson 1988, Kratzer 1995) and implement their theory by claiming that there is a crucial correlation between IL/SL constructions and their information structure. I argue that IL subjects are topics (and hence this is a categorical construction, following Kuroda 1972, Milsark 1977 and Raposo & Uriagereka 1995), whereas in SL constructions the topic may either be the subject or a silent spatiotemporal argument (their construction being thetic). I show the topic nature of IL subjects in contexts of specificity and subextraction. I ultimately derive the IS of IL/SL constructions from their lexical-syntactic structure and identify the type of topic here as an Aboutness-Topic (in the sense of Frascarelli & Hinterh lzl 2007, Lambrecht 1994, Erteschik-Shir 1997). Keywords: individual-level/stage-level predicates, copulas, small clause, central-coincidence/terminal coincidence prepositions, topic, specificity, subextraction
%K individual-level predicates
%K stage-level predicates
%K copulas
%K small clause
%K central-coincidence prepositions
%K terminal coincidence prepositions
%K topic
%K specificity
%K subextraction
%U http://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/borealis/article/view/2293