Heycock, Caroline and Kroch, Anthony (1997) Inversion and equation in copular sentences. In Proceedings the Workshop on (Pseudo)Clefts, Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin.

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Abstract

Analysis of "specificational" or "inverse predicational" copular sentences arguing that they are instances of a more general "equative"/"equational" type