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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453781203321

Autore

Oltra Massuet Maria Isabel

Titolo

Deverbal adjectives at the interface : a crosslinguistic investigation into the morphology, syntax and semantics of -ble / / Isabel Oltra-Massuet

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

1-61451-065-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (356 p.)

Collana

Interface explorations, , 1861-4167 ; ; volume 28

Disciplina

425/.5

Soggetti

English language - Adjective

English language - Verb

English language - Suffixes and prefixes

English language - Grammar, Comparative - Spanish

Spanish language - Grammar, Comparative - English

Morphology

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Content -- List of abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 2 -BLE -- 3 Case Study 1: V todo lo Vble -- 4 Case study 2: N-ble -- 5 Conclusions and directions for further research -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.