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|| The expletive ''it'' just redundantly contributes the eventuality variable of the weather verb ''rain''. | |||
{Sentence: ''It was snowing.''<br />Logical form: '''snow''' • ''s''<br /> | {Sentence: ''It was snowing.''<br />Logical form: '''snow''' • ''s''<br /> | ||
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+++ ''snowing'' | +++ ''snowing'' | ||
|| The copula ''was'' is a CONTENT raiser, i.e., its DR and MAIN values are identical with those of its complement, ''snowing''. | |||
|| The copula also syntactically raises the subject requirement of the verb ''snow''. Therefore, an expletive ''it'' must occur as the subject. | |||
|| The expletive ''it'' only contributes an eventuality variable, and does so redundantly. | |||
Revision as of 23:20, 12 November 2013
Exercises for chapter 5: Simple LRS
Functional notation
Semantic types
Basic combinatorics
Basic mechanism with canonical examples
Basic mechanism with copula and argument-marking preposition
Nominal expletives
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