Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo" (Apr 2005)
Predicate nominals in eventive copular sentences
Abstract
This paper presents a comparative study of predicate nominals in eventive copular sentences. I am concerned with languages that grammaticalize the contrast between eventive and non-eventive copular sentences, and I discuss here three cases: the optionality of the indefinite article in French and German, the two verbs "to be" in Irish, and case marking in Russian.