The Syntax Of Adjectives
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The Syntax Of Adjectives
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Author : Guglielmo Cinque
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2010-07-30
The Syntax Of Adjectives written by Guglielmo Cinque and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-30 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
A 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.
Adjectives
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Author : Patricia Cabredo Hofherr
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2010-05-06
Adjectives written by Patricia Cabredo Hofherr and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-06 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Adjectives 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.
Coordinating Information And Communications Technology Across The Primary School
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Author : Connor Ferris
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-06-11
Coordinating Information And Communications Technology Across The Primary School written by Connor Ferris and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-11 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This 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.
Where Have All The Adjectives Gone
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Author : R. M. W. Dixon
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2010-12-14
Where Have All The Adjectives Gone written by R. M. W. Dixon and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-14 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
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Syntax Of Dutch
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Author : Hans Broekhuis
language : en
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Release Date : 2014-03-15
Syntax Of Dutch written by Hans Broekhuis and has been published by Amsterdam University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-15 with Reference categories.
'The Syntax of Dutch' will be published in at least seven volumes in the period 2012-2016 and aims at presenting a synthesis of the currently available syntactic knowledge of Dutch. It is primarily concerned with language description and not with linguistic theory, and provides support to all researchers interested in matters relating to the syntax of Dutch, including advanced students of language and linguistics. The volume Adjectives and Adjective Phrases discusses the internal make-up as well as the distribution of adjective phrases. Topics that will be covered include: complementation and modification of adjective phrases; comparative and superlative formation; the attributive, predicative and adverbial uses of adjective phrases. Special attention is paid to the so-called partitive genitive construction and the adverbial use of past/passive participles and infinitives.
Adjectives And Adverbs
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Author : Louise McNally
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2008-03-27
Adjectives And Adverbs written by Louise McNally and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-03-27 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
In 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.
The Meaning Of Syntax
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Author : D. Connor Ferris
language : en
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
Release Date : 1993
The Meaning Of Syntax written by D. Connor Ferris and has been published by Longman Publishing Group this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Intended 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.
Adjectives In Germanic And Romance
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Author : Petra Sleeman
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Release Date : 2014-02-15
Adjectives In Germanic And Romance written by Petra Sleeman and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-15 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Although the Germanic and Romance languages are two branches of the same language family and although both have developed the adjective as a separate syntactic and morphological category, the syntax, morphology, and interpretation of adjectives is by no means the same in these two language groups, and there is even variation within each of the language groups. One of the main aims of this volume is to map the differences and similarities in syntactic behavior, morphology, and meaning of the Germanic and Romance adjective and to find an answer to the following question: Are the (dis)similarities the result of autonomous developments in each of the two branches of the Indo-European language family, or are they caused by language contact?
Projecting The Adjective
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Author : Christopher Kennedy
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-02-01
Projecting The Adjective written by Christopher Kennedy and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-01 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
First Published in 1999. The main argument presented in this volume is that gradable adjectives like bright, dense and short denote measure functions- functions from objects to abstract representations of measurement, or scales and degrees. This proposal is shown to provide a foundation for principled explanations of a wide range of syntactic and semantic properties of gradable adjectives and the constructions in which they appear, ranging from the syntactic distribution of gradable adjectives to the scopal characteristics of comparatives and the empirical effects of adjectival polarity.
The Syntax Of Prenominal And Postnominal Adjectives In Old English
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Author : Agnieszka Pysz
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2009
The Syntax Of Prenominal And Postnominal Adjectives In Old English written by Agnieszka Pysz and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Foreign Language Study categories.
This 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.