Appositives and the limits of predication

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While nominals—particularly definites—typically occur in argu-ment positions, it is well-known that in English and many other languages nominals can also appear in predicate position. Such cases of nominal predication have been classified into a number of different types, but there are influential arguments in the syntactic literature that a single kind of nominal predication underlies the apparent diversity. This paper argues that nominal appositions can provide new evidence concerning the interpretation of nominals in non-verbal constructions, adding to the existing case that at least the simplest type of reduction is not viable.

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