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Deverbal Adjectives at the Interface

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This series consists of collected volumes and monographs about specific issues dealing with interfaces among the subcomponents of linguistic structure: phonology-morphology, phonology-syntax, synta...
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  • 15 November 2013
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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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Price: $160.99
Pages: 356
Publisher: De Gruyter
Imprint: De Gruyter Mouton
Publication Date: 15 November 2013
ISBN: 9781614510642
Format: Hardcover
BISACs: LAN009000 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, LAN009020 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Morphology, LAN009060 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax
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Isabel Oltra-Massuet, Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales — Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CCHS-CSIC), Madrid, Spain.