Deverbal adjectives at the interface : a crosslinguistic investigation into the morphology, syntax and semantics of -ble / / Isabel Oltra-Massuet
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| Autore: |
Oltra Massuet Maria Isabel
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| Titolo: |
Deverbal adjectives at the interface : a crosslinguistic investigation into the morphology, syntax and semantics of -ble / / Isabel Oltra-Massuet
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| Pubblicazione: | Boston : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2014] |
| ©2014 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (356 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 425/.5 |
| Soggetto topico: | English language - Adjective |
| English language - Verb | |
| English language - Suffixes and prefixes | |
| English language - Grammar, Comparative - Spanish | |
| Spanish language - Grammar, Comparative - English | |
| Morphology | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Deverbal adjectives at the interface |
| ISBN: | 1-61451-065-2 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910823615203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Interface explorations ; ; 28.