Relational Adjectives in Romance and English: Mismatches at Interfaces
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- Synopsis
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In both Romance and English literature, relational adjectives have received special attention due to their apparently idiosyncratic behaviour, 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 work explains their peculiar behaviour that has so far represented a challenge for current morphological theories.
Mihaela Marchis Moreno takes an empirical approach to their distribution, and the syntactic and semantic conditions that govern their use. Drawing upon key findings from previous literature she proposes a new model of how relational adjectives work both cross-linguistically, and across the various interfaces of language.
A pioneering work that provides explanation for the peculiar behaviour of relational adjectives as both noun and adjective,
Provides a wide range of data on the formation of relational adjectives and their behaviour from both an empirical and theoretical perspective and from a variety of different languages.
Suggests new techniques for analyses that can be used for further investigation of similar topics.
- Copyright:
- 2018
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781108311175
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781108418560, 9781108418560
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Date of Addition:
- 06/15/18
- Copyrighted By:
- Mihaela Marchis Moreno
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Language Arts
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- Bookshare Staff
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- This is a copyrighted book.