Isabel Oltra-Massuet

Deverbal Adjectives at the Interface

A Crosslinguistic Investigation into the Morphology, Syntax and Semantics of -ble

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume explores the syntax, semantics, and morphology of -ble adjectives within Distributed Morphology. It presents a decompositional analysis of -ble that captures intralinguistic variation and accounts for morphologically more complex languages. It contributes novel empirical data. First, the grammaticality of -ble formations derived from unergatives and unaccusatives in Spanish is argued to be a function of their exoskeletal properties in interaction with language-specific facts and features of the grammar of cognation, degrees, quantification and Aktionsart. A previously unnoticed correlation between the Spanish data and a cognate configuration with unaccusatives in English reinforces the proposal. Second, the grammaticality of denominal -ble adjectives in Romance and their absence in English relates aspects of the internal structure of -ble to issues pertaining to the eventive properties and syntactico-semantic status of the base nouns. This crosslinguistic proposalimplicates central issues in the syntax-semantics-morphology interface, e.g. cross category derivations, locus of variation, or status of impossible words.

Produktdetails

• Interface Explorations [IE] 28
• Verlag: De Gruyter
• Seitenzahl: 356
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 649g
• ISBN-13: 9781614510642
• ISBN-10: 1614510644
• Artikelnr.: 36662418

Autorenporträt

Isabel Oltra-Massuet, Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales ¿ Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CCHS-CSIC), Madrid, Spain.