inverse copular constructionsの例文

例文

1. Inverse copular constructions, in which the positions of the predicative expression and the subject are reversed, are found in various languages.
2. In the inverse copular constructions, the copula agrees with the singular predicative expression to its left as opposed to with the plural subject to its right.
3. Relying on a unified theory of copular sentences, it has been proposed that the English " there "-sentences are subtypes of inverse copular constructions.
4. The defining trait of the inverse copular constructions is that two counts of inversion appear to have occurred : the normal subject has inverted to a post-verb position, and the predicative nominal has inverted to the pre-verb position.
5. The fact that English ( unlike German and Italian ) demands subject-verb agreement to occur with the pre-verb NP generates confusion about what should qualify as the subject NP . From a morphological point of view, the pre-verb NP in inverse copular constructions should count as the subject, but from the perspective of information structure ( e . g . definiteness, old information, specificity ), the post-verb NP should be the subject.