Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Abstract -- Contents -- Key to transcription conventions -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Corpus compilation and methodology -- Chapter 3 A functional-structural analysis of predicative and specificational clauses -- Chapter 4 The indefinite NP in predicative and specificational copular clauses -- Chapter 5 Aspect and modality in the copular clause -- Chapter 6 The prosodically coded information structure of specificational and predicative copular clauses -- Chapter 7 The discourse embedding of predicative and specificational clauses -- Conclusion -- References -- Index