UID:
almafu_9959239802802883
Format:
1 online resource (356 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-61451-065-2
Series Statement:
Interface explorations, volume 28
Content:
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 proposal implicates central issues in the syntax-semantics-morphology interface, e.g. cross category derivations, locus of variation, or status of impossible words.
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Description based upon print version of record.
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Frontmatter --
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Acknowledgements --
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Content --
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List of abbreviations --
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1 Introduction --
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2 -BLE --
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3 Case Study 1: V todo lo Vble --
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4 Case study 2: N-ble --
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5 Conclusions and directions for further research --
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References --
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Index
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Issued also in print.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-61451-064-4
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-306-20523-9
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
DOI:
10.1515/9781614510659
