Relational adjectives in Romance and English : mismatches at interfaces /
In both Romance and English literature, relational adjectives have received special attention due to their apparently idiosyncratic behavior, 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 w...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- 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.