The Syntax of Adjectives
Author: Guglielmo Cinque
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 0262014165
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Author: Guglielmo Cinque
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 0262014165
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Author: Guglielmo Cinque
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2010-07-30
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 0262514265
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA new analysis of adjectives, supported by comparative evidence. In The Syntax of Adjectives, Guglielmo Cinque offers cross-linguistic evidence that adjectives have two sources. Arguing against the standard view, and reconsidering his own earlier analysis, Cinque proposes that adjectives enter the nominal phase either as “adverbial” modifiers to the noun or as predicates of reduced relative clauses. Some of his evidence comes from a systematic comparison between Romance and Germanic languages. These two language families differ with respect to the canonical position taken by adjectives, which is prenominal in Germanic and both pre- and postnominal in Romance. Cinque shows that a simple N(oun)-raising analysis encounters a number of problems, the primary one of which is its inability to express a fundamental generalization governing the interpretation of pre- and postnominal adjectives in the two language families. Cinque argues that N-raising as such should be abandoned in favor of XP-raising—a conclusion also supported by evidence from other language families. After developing this framework for analyzing the syntax of adjectives, Cinque applies it to the syntax of English and Italian adjectives. An appendix offers a brief discussion of other languages that appear to distinguish overtly between the two sources of adjectives.
Author: Patricia Cabredo Hofherr
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 2010-05-06
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 9027288348
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAdjectives are comparatively less well studied than the lexical categories of nouns and verbs. The present volume brings together studies in the syntax and semantics of adjectives. Four of the contributions investigate the syntax of adjectives in a variety of languages (English, French, Mandarin Chinese, Modern Hebrew, Russian, Spanish, and Serbocroatian). The theoretical issues explored include: the syntax of attributive and predicative adjectives, the syntax of nominalized adjectives and the identification of adjectives as a distinct lexical category in Mandarin Chinese. A further four contributions examine different aspects in the semantics of adjectives in English, French, and Spanish, dealing with superlatives, comparatives, and aspect in adjectives. This volume will be of interest to researchers and students in syntax, formal semantics, and language typology.
Author: R. M. W. Dixon
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2010-12-14
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 3110822938
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNo detailed description available for "Where have All the Adjectives Gone?".
Author: Agnieszka Pysz
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is the first monograph which provides a comprehensive discussion of the syntactic behaviour of Old English (OE) adnominal adjectives. Drawing on the empirical data retrieved from the York-Toronto-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Old English Prose (Taylor, Warner, Pintzuk & Beths 2003), the author proposes an analysis of OE adjectives by means of a theoretical apparatus couched in the framework of Chomskyâ (TM)s generative grammar. The analysis incorporates the following properties of OE adjectives: â [ their inflectional patterning, i.e. whether adjectives take â oeweakâ and â oestrongâ inflectional endings â [ the so-called adjective stacking, i.e. whether adjectives can occur in uninterrupted strings â [ the surface placement with respect to their complements â [ the surface placement with respect to the nominal head The author observes that the differences between prenominal and postnominal adjectives go far beyond the superficial difference in their surface placement. She argues therefore that the two types of adjectives require two different theoretical treatments. The volume consists of five chapters. It is supplemented by four appendices and an extensive bibliography.
Author: Connor Ferris
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-06-11
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 1317894138
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book adopts a new approach to a major area of syntax - the way in which adjectives are bound together with other words in phrases or sentences.
Author: D. Connor Ferris
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntended for students at both postgraduate and undergraduate level this series aims to provide a broad view of the subject difficult to obtain exclusively from academic journals and monographs. Coverage of this series will be extended to all main aspects of linguistic study, and will include work on major language families, on English and on other important languages.
Author: Mihaela Marchis Moreno
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-04-19
Total Pages: 213
ISBN-13: 1108418562
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscusses a special case of syntax-morphology mismatch that puzzles current traditional morphological theories - the case of relational adjectives across languages.
Author: Louise McNally
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2008-03-27
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 0191526363
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this volume leading researchers present new work on the semantics and pragmatics of adjectives and adverbs, and their interfaces with syntax. Its concerns include the semantics of gradability; the relationship between adjectival scales and verbal aspect; the relationship between meaning and the positions of adjectives and adverbs in nominal and verbal projections; and the fine-grained semantics of different subclasses of adverbs and adverbs. Its goals are to provide a comprehensive vision of the linguistically significant structural and interpretive properties of adjectives and adverbs, to highlight the similarities between these two categories, and to signal the importance of a careful and detailed integration of lexical and compositional semantics. The editors open the book with an overview of current research before introducing and contextualizing the remaining chapters. The work is aimed at scholars and advanced students of syntax, semantics, formal pragmatics, and discourse. It will also appeal to researchers in philosophy, psycholinguistics, and language acquisition interested in the syntax and semantics of adjectives and adverbs.
Author: Louise McNally
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008-03-27
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 0199211612
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book brings together research on the semantics and pragmatics of adjectives and adverbs. It integrates lexical and compositional semantics and provides a full account of the structural and interpretive properties of adjectives and adverbs. It will interest students in linguistics and philosophy at graduate level and above.