Challenging discrete approaches to secondary-predicate constructions [Elektronische Ressource] : towards a non-discrete account of resultative, depictive and qualifying constructions in English / vorgelegt von Holger Saurenbach

Challenging Discrete Approaches to Secondary-Predicate Constructions Towards a Non-discrete Account of Resultative, Depictive and Qualifying Constructions in English Inaugural-Dissertation zur Erlangung der Doktorwürde der Philosophischen Fakultät IV (Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften) der Universität Regensburg vorgelegt von Holger Saurenbach aus Amberg Regensburg, Februar 2004 Erstgutachter: Prof. Dr. Edgar W. Schneider Zweitgutachterin: Prof. Dr. Roswitha Fischer ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS iiiAcknowledgements *This project was inspired by Edgar W. Schneider's 1997 article "As as 'is': is as 'is'", which points out many of the questions raised by secondary-predicate constructions in English and has paved the way for my research into the subtleties and complexities of this intriguing aspect of English grammar. Prof. Schneider's motivating remarks on my Zulassungsarbeit and on two talks given in his research collo-quium have encouraged me to broaden the theoretical and empirical basis of my work, which has fi-nally resulted in the present dissertation. As is frequently the case with such large-scale projects, work on this dissertation has quickly taken on a life of its own.