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Relational adjectives in Romance and English : mismatches at interfaces / Mihaela Marchis Moreno, University of Lisbon.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Moreno, Mihaela Marchis, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Romance languages--Adjective.
- Romance languages.
- English language--Adjective.
- English language.
- Romance languages--Grammar, Comparative--English.
- English language--Grammar, Comparative--Romance.
- Grammar, Comparative and general--Adjective.
- Grammar, Comparative and general.
- English language--Grammar, Comparative.
- Romance languages--Grammar, Comparative.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 203 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- "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"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction; 2. What does morphology learn from relational adjectives?; 3. Ontological semantics: qualifying vs relational adjectives; 4. A classification of relational adjectives across languages; 5. The morpho-syntactic analysis of relational adjectives; 6. The syntax of thematic adjectives; 7. Deverbal nominalizations; 8. Thematic adjectives and nominalizations; 9. The syntax of classificatory adjectives; 10. Relational adjectives as compounding; 11. Conclusions and questions for future research.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781108418560
- 1108418562
- OCLC:
- 1006466662
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