The Grammar of Copulas Across Languages

María J. Arche is Associate Professor of Linguistics & Spanish at the University of Greenwich. Her research focuses on the syntax and semantics of tense and aspect and their acquisition. She is the author of Individuals in Time: Tense, Aspect and the Individual/Stage Distinction (Benjamins, 2006) and co-editor of The Grammar Dimension in Instructed Second Language Learning (Bloomsbury, 2013), and has edited special issues of Natural Language and Linguistic Theory and Lingua on aspect and argument structure.Antonio Fábregas is Full Professor of Hispanic Linguistics at the University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway. His research concentrates on the syntax and semantics of word-internal structures, with particular attention to grammatical categories, aspect and tense, and the properties of affixes. He is the co-author of Morphology: From Data to Theories (Edinburgh University Press, 2012) and co-editor of Contemporary Linguistic Parameters (Bloomsbury, 2015).Rafael Marín is Researcher in Linguistics at the STL laboratory, CNRS / Université de Lille 3. His work focuses on lexical aspect and related phenomena. He has mainly worked on non-verbal predication (adjectives and participles, copular constructions), psychological predicates, and morphology-semantics interface. Since 2016, he has been the Director of the Catalan Foundation for Research and Innovation.

• 1: María J. Arche, Antonio Fábregas, and Rafael Marín: Main questions in the study of copulas: Categories, structures and operations 2: Nicholas Welch: Copulas and light verbs as spellouts of argument structure: Evidence from Dene languages 3: Teresa O'Neill: The support copula in the left periphery 4: Kwang-sup Kim: The copula as a nominative case marker 5: Susana Bejar, Jessica Denniss, Arsalan Kahnemuyipour, and Tomohiro Yokoyama: Number matching in binomial small clauses 6: Anna Bondaruk: Agreement with the post-verbal DP in Polish dual copula clauses 7: Jitka Barto%s161;ová and Ivona Ku%cerová: On person, animacy, and copular agreement in Czech 8: Isabelle Roy and Ur Shlonsky: Aspects of the syntax of ce in French copular sentences 9: Olga Borik: The role of the copula in the periphrastic passives in Russian 10: Luis Sáez: The copula in certain Caribbean Spanish focus constructions 11: Hannah Gibson, Rozenn Guérois, and Lutz Marten: Variation in Bantu copula constructions 12: Nicoletta Loccioni: Predicational and specificational copular sentences in Logoori References

The Grammar of Copulas across Languages is a valuable addition to the literature on copulas...Reading this book was rewarding to me, and I believe it is capable of informing new works in this challenging field.