Chapter 5 Aspect and modality in the copular clause

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements V
3. Abstract VII
4. Contents IX
5. Key to transcription conventions XIII
6. Chapter 1 Introduction 1
7. Chapter 2 Corpus compilation and methodology 21
8. Chapter 3 A functional-structural analysis of predicative and specificational clauses 38
9. Chapter 4 The indefinite NP in predicative and specificational copular clauses 119
10. Chapter 5 Aspect and modality in the copular clause 173
11. Chapter 6 The prosodically coded information structure of specificational and predicative copular clauses 205
12. Chapter 7 The discourse embedding of predicative and specificational clauses 266
13. Conclusion 303
14. References 311
15. Index 325