The syntax of adjectives : a comparative study /
Here, 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 re...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
©2010.
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Colección: | Linguistic inquiry monographs ;
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- Machine generated contents note: 1.1. Apparent Restriction on the Number of Postnominal Adjectives in Romance
- 1.2. Existence of Unexpected Mirror-Image Orders between Germanic and Romance
- 1.3. Existence of Unexpected Scope Effects in Romance
- 2.1. Individual-Level vs. Stage-Level Readings
- 2.2. Restrictive vs. Nonrestrictive Readings
- 2.3. Modal vs. Implicit Relative Clause Readings
- 2.4. Intersective vs. Nonintersective (Adverbial) Readings
- 2.5. Relative (to a Comparison Class) vs. Absolute Readings
- 2.6. Comparative vs. Absolute Readings of Superlatives
- 2.7. Specificity- vs. Non-Specificity-Inducing Readings
- 2.8. Evaluative vs. Epistemic Readings of 'unknown'
- 2.9. NP-Dependent vs. Discourse Anaphoric Readings of 'different'
- 2.10. Summary of the Basic Generalizations
- 2.11. Additional Problem for the N-Movement Analysis
- 3.1. Two Sources of Adnominal Adjectives
- 3.2. Summary of the Interpretive Properties Associated with Each Source
- 3.3. Preview of the Syntactic Properties Associated with Each Source
- 3.4. Summary of the Semantic and Syntactic Properties of the Two Sources
- 3.5. Some Crosslinguistic and Acquisitional Evidence for the Dual Source of Adnominal Adjectives
- 3.6. Phrasal Movement Over Head Movement or Base Generation
- 4.1. Syntactic Analysis of Direct Modification Adjectives
- 4.2. Syntactic Analysis of Indirect Modification Adjectives
- 5.1. Prenominal Adjectives in English (Germanic)
- 5.2. Postnominal Adjectives in English (Germanic) and Their Derivation
- 5.3. Potential Problem
- 5.4. Reduced Relative Clause Source for Prenominal Participles
- 5.5. Something Funny
- 6.1. Prenominal and Postnominal Adjectives in Italian (Romance)
- 6.2. Position of PP Complements and Adjuncts vis-à-vis Adjectives in Italian (Romance).