
Adjectival Modification and Order Restrictions
The Influence of Temporariness on Prenominal Word Order
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Adjectival Modification and Order Restrictions
The Influence of Temporariness on Prenominal Word Order
About this book
This monographs investigates into the influence of the individual-/stage-level distinction (IL/SL) on order restrictions of multiple prenominal adjectives (AORs). It rejects the restriction regularly postulatedāacross different research frameworksāthat SL-adjectives are being realized farther from the head noun than IL-adjectives, relegating the alleged constraint to an epiphenomenon of more general principles. While formal-theoretic hypotheses on AORs are formulated and put to the test empirically via a large corpus as well as two rating studies, the book also addresses adjective classification, modification patterns, and the IL-SL-debate in general. The preferred prenominal positions of typical SL-adjectives are argued to follow from their nature as absolute-gradable adjectives as well as from the distinction between object- and kind-modification. The empirical studies corroborate these considerations. The book critically discusses and opposes several well-established hypotheses on AORs, sketches a flexible and parsimonious syntax of adjectival modification, and will be of interest to syntacticians and semanticists working on DP-structure, the IL-SL-debate, and adjectival modification
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Table of contents
- Table of contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of Tables
- List of Figures
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 The word class āadjectiveā
- 2 Individual-level, stage-level, and temporariness
- 3 Adjective order restrictions, adjective classes, and property concepts in DP
- 4 Layered adjective order and genericity
- Conclusion
- References
- Appendix I
- Appendix II
- Appendix III
- Subject index