Mihaela Marchis Moreno

Relational Adjectives in Romance and English

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Discusses a special case of syntax-morphology mismatch that puzzles current traditional morphological theories - the case of relational adjectives across languages.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 470g
• ISBN-13: 9781108418560
• ISBN-10: 1108418562
• Artikelnr.: 49563287

Autorenporträt

Mihaela Marchis Moreno is a linguist and writer whose main research focusses on comparative syntax, morpho-syntax and semantics-syntax interfaces.

Inhaltsangabe

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.