ABSTRACT
The previous chapter was devoted to determining the D-Structure and the S-Structure associated with French copular sentences. Following Couquaux (1979, 1981), Heggie (1988), and Stowell (1978, 1983), it was argued that the copula (etre ‘to be’) subcategorizes for a small clause at D-Structure and that the subject of the small clause raises at SStructure in order to receive a Case feature from Agr-S. The major conclusion of chapter 4, therefore, was that copular sentences like (1) below share with other Raising verbs, e.g. rester ‘to remain,’ the DStructure provided in (3) and the S-Structure in (4).
