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...

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Main Author: Cinque, Guglielmo
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2010.
Series:Linguistic inquiry monographs ; 57
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary: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 reduced relative clauses.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xv, 202 pages) : illustrations.
ISBN:9780262289306
026228930X
128049929X
9781280499296
DOI:10.7551/mitpress/9780262014168.001.0001