Relational Adjectives in Romance and English : Mismatches at Interfaces
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| Title: | Relational Adjectives in Romance and English : Mismatches at Interfaces |
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| Description: | 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. |
| Authors: | Mihaela Marchis Moreno |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Grammar, Comparative and general--Adjective, English language--Grammar, Comparative--Romance, Romance languages--Adjective, English language--Adjective, Romance languages--Grammar, Comparative--English |
| Categories: | LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | 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. |
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| ISBN: | 9781108418560 9781108314176 |
