31.3834, Books: Relational Adjectives in Romance and English: Moreno

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Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2020 21:32:46
From: Rachel Tonkin [rtonkin at cambridge.org]
Subject: Relational Adjectives in Romance and English: Moreno

 


Title: Relational Adjectives in Romance and English 
Subtitle: Mismatches at Interfaces 
Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/grammar-and-syntax/relational-adjectives-romance-and-english-mismatches-interfaces?format=PB 


Author: Mihaela Marchis Moreno

Paperback: ISBN:  9781108407557 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 31.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781108407557 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 23.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781108407557 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 28.00


Abstract:

Editor's note: Now in Paperback

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.

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.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Syntax

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Language Family(ies): Romance


Written In: English  (eng)

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