Advances in the Syntax of DPs - Structure, agreement, and case

62 Anna Bondaruk and specificational copular clauses in Polish. Equatives differ considerably from other copular clauses, partic ...

Polish equatives as symmetrical structures 63 typically followed by an instrumental case marked nominal predicate.^1 Likewise, t ...

64 Anna Bondaruk to, although they lack a past or future tense interpretation and are then understood as referring to the presen ...

Polish equatives as symmetrical structures 65 (8) Dr Jekyll to (jest) pan Hyde. Dr. Jekyll.nom cop is Mr. Hyde.nom ‘Dr. Jekyll i ...

66 Anna Bondaruk How do equatives differ from predicational and specificational clauses in Polish? There is a number of differ ...

Polish equatives as symmetrical structures 67 to- equatives described in Section 2 (cf. example (3) above). It is worth noting t ...

68 Anna Bondaruk Since it is not the main concern of this paper to analyse the structure and deriva- tion of predicational and s ...

Polish equatives as symmetrical structures 69 (11) TP T′ vP to jest Marek Ø T v PredP DP Pred′ DP dobry s tudent Pred The repres ...

70 Anna Bondaruk Specificational clauses are derived in a different way. Bondaruk (2013a) suggests that in sentences of this typ ...

Polish equatives as symmetrical structures 71 In (13) the boxed T’ undergoes remnant movement and hence ends up in the inner [Sp ...

72 Anna Bondaruk (15) (Jeśli idzie o dobrego studenta), to to as goes for good student it cop jest Marek. is Mark.nom ‘As for a ...

Polish equatives as symmetrical structures 73 subject-predicate agreement. In both predicational and specificational to być clau ...

74 Anna Bondaruk The sentences in (20) and (21) clearly indicate that neither the singular nor the plural 1st or 2nd person pron ...

Polish equatives as symmetrical structures 75 of DP be 3rd person”. When applied to Polish copular clauses, Richards’ formulatio ...

76 Anna Bondaruk The lack of PCC-effect in equatives seems to indicate that the two phrases flank- ing the copula are not affect ...

Polish equatives as symmetrical structures 77 content but must be filled overtly by some lexical element either via head movemen ...

78 Anna Bondaruk (30) TP DP T′ vP v ja ty T EqP jestem DP Eq′ Eq DP ø to The main problem with the structure in (30) concerns th ...

Polish equatives as symmetrical structures 79 In the Minimalist Program, a new functional head is posited only if there are good ...

80 Anna Bondaruk Pereltsvaig notes that the symmetrical structure in (32) does not result from adjunc- tion, as adjunction typic ...

Polish equatives as symmetrical structures 81 In (32) the two DPs mutually c-command each other and, hence, in accordance with ( ...