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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459901303321

Autore

Cinque Guglielmo

Titolo

The syntax of adjectives : a comparative study / / Guglielmo Cinque

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2010

ISBN

1-280-49929-X

9786613594525

0-262-28930-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 202 p.) : ill

Collana

Linguistic inquiry monographs ; ; 57

Disciplina

415/.5

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general - Adjective

Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [151]-186) and indexes.

Sommario/riassunto

Here, Guglielmo Cinque offers cross-linguistic evidence that adjectives have two sources. Arguing against the standard view and reconsidering his own earlier analysis, Cinque proposes that adjectives enter the nominal phase either as 'adverbial' modifiers to the noun or as predicates of reduced relative clauses.