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Morphologically derived adjectives in Spanish /
"This is the first book that presents a complete empirical description and theoretical analysis of all major classes of derived adjectives in Spanish, both deverbal and denominal. The reader will find here both a detailed empirical description of the syntactic, morphological and semantic proper...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
[2020]
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| Colección: | Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone linguistics ;
v. 30. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Morphologically Derived Adjectives in Spanish
- Editorial page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Table of contents
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- 1. Goals and overview
- 1.1 The empirical base
- 1.2 Overview of the main theoretical argument in the book
- 2. Nanosyntax: The spell-out procedure
- 2.1 Phrasal Spell Out
- 2.2 The Exhaustive Lexicalisation Principle
- 2.3 The Superset Principle
- 3. Assumptions about prepositional structures and the projections they introduce
- 3.1 Prepositional structures
- 3.2 Assumptions about case
- 4. The chapters
- Chapter 2. The problem with (complex) adjectives
- 1. Lexical categories: Essentialist and distributionalist theories
- 2. The heterogeneity of the adjectival class
- 3. Against the essentialist definition of adjectives
- 3.1 Non-universality
- 3.2 Absence of positive properties and derived character
- 3.3 Adjectives do not form a natural class in Spanish
- 4. Consequences for morphological analysis
- 5. Head recycling and adjective formation
- Chapter 3. Denominal relational adjectives
- 1. Sketch of the analysis
- 2. Empirical properties of relational adjectives
- A. Adjacency to the modified noun
- B. Non-availability of the prenominal position
- C. Combination of two relational adjectives in the singular with one noun in the plural
- D. There must be a lexical difference between affixes for relational adjectives and those for qualifying adjectives
- E. However, it is frequent that the same affix produces both qualifying and relational adjectives
- F. And at least there are two affixes that only produce relational adjectives
- G. Relational adjectives express underspecified relations between two types of entity
- H. Not being anchored to a dimension, relational adjectives reject degree modification
- I. Relational adjectives also lack polar oppositions
- J. Relational adjectives express relations between kinds of entities
- K. Relational adjectives produce bracketing paradoxes
- 3. Analysis: Relational adjectives as incomplete prepositional phrases
- 3.1 The internal syntactic structure of relational adjectives
- 3.2 The spell out of the structure: Phrasal Spell Out and the Superset
- 4. Previous analyses of the internal structure of relational adjectives
- 5. The external syntax of relational adjectives
- 5.1 Deriving the syntactic position of relational adjectives
- 5.2 Bracketing paradoxes
- 5.3 What licenses 'Singular + Singular = Plural'?
- Appendix. Do relational adjectives really have double affixal marking?
- Chapter 4. Qualifying denominal adjectives I: Possessive and similitudinal adjectives
- 1. Overview of the analysis of qualifying denominal adjectives
- 1.1 On the criteria to determine whether an adjective is qualifying
- 2. Possessive adjectives: Empirical properties
- 2.1 What conceptual notions are expressed as possession?