Relational Adjectives in Romance and English
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Relational Adjectives in Romance and English

Mismatches at Interfaces

  1. English
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  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Relational Adjectives in Romance and English

Mismatches at Interfaces

About this book

In both Romance and English literature, relational adjectives have received special attention due to their apparently idiosyncratic behaviour, as both nouns and adjectives at the same time. Stepping away from the usual analyses that concentrates generally on their noun-like properties, this pioneer work explains their peculiar behaviour that has so far represented a challenge for current morphological theories. Mihaela Marchis Moreno takes an empirical approach to their distribution, and the syntactic and semantic conditions that govern their use. Drawing upon key findings from previous literature she proposes a new model of how relational adjectives work both cross-linguistically, and across the various interfaces of language.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. List of tables
  7. 1 Introduction
  8. 2 What Does Morphology Learn from Relational Adjectives?
  9. 3 Ontological Semantics: Qualifying versus Relational Adjectives
  10. 4 A Classification of Relational Adjectives across Languages
  11. 5 The Morpho-syntactic Analysis of Relational Adjectives
  12. 6 The Syntax of Thematic Adjectives⤀
  13. 7 Deverbal Nominalizations
  14. 8 Thematic Adjectives and Nominalizations
  15. 9 The Syntax of Classificatory Adjectives
  16. 10 Relational Adjectives as Compounding
  17. 11 Conclusions and Questions for Further Research
  18. References
  19. Index