21.4713, Books: Syntax: Cinque

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Date: 16-Nov-2010
From: David Weininger [dgw at mit.edu]
Subject: The Syntax of Adjectives: Cinque

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From: David Weininger [dgw at mit.edu]
Subject: The Syntax of Adjectives: Cinque

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Title: The Syntax of Adjectives 
Subtitle: A Comparative Study 
Series Title: Linguistic Inquiry Monographs  

Publication Year: 2010 
Publisher: MIT Press
	   http://mitpress.mit.edu/

Book URL: http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262514262 

Author: Guglielmo Cinque

Hardback: ISBN: 0262014165 9780262014168 Pages: 218 Price: U.S. $ 70
Paperback: ISBN: 0262514265 9780262514262 Pages: 218 Price: U.S. $ 35

Abstract:

In "The Syntax of Adjectives", 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. Some of his evidence
comes from a systematic comparison between Romance and Germanic languages.
These two language families differ with respect to the canonical position
taken by adjectives, which is prenominal in Germanic and both pre- and
postnominal in Romance. Cinque shows that a simple N(oun)-raising analysis
encounters a number of problems, the primary one of which is its inability
to express a fundamental generalization governing the interpretation of
pre- and postnominal adjectives in the two language families. Cinque argues
that N-raising as such should be abandoned in favor of XP-raising--a
conclusion also supported by evidence from other language families.

After developing this framework for analyzing the syntax of adjectives,
Cinque applies it to the syntax of English and Italian adjectives. An
appendix offers a brief discussion of other languages that appear to
distinguish overtly between the two sources of adjectives. 

Linguistic Field(s): Syntax

Subject Language(s): English (eng)
                     Italian (ita)

Language Family(ies): Germanic
                      Romance 

Written In: English  (eng)

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