@article{Cann_2019, title={Interpreting ‘be’}, volume={7}, url={https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/sub/index.php/sub/article/view/794}, DOI={10.18148/sub/2003.v7i0.794}, abstractNote={<p>This paper proposes an approach to the interpretation of copular sentences in English that analyses be as a one-place predicate with underspecified semantic content. The interpretation of a copula clause is determined through the interaction of syntactic and pragmatic processes and depends on the properties of expressions collocated with be and general contextual factors, both local and non-local. Analyses are provided for predicational, specificational and equative sentences using the framework of Dynamic Syntax.</p>}, journal={Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung}, author={Cann, Ronnie}, year={2019}, month={Aug.}, pages={95–109} }