The Meaning of Syntax

Ferris, Connor

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“…Alexiadou & Stavrou () show that the conjunction of the two adjectives amounts to the combination or fusion of their individual denotations, which takes place prior to their (jointly) modifying the noun (Ferris :130). Hence, (34) can be paraphrased as (35):…”

Section: The Morpho‐syntactic Analysis Of Relational Adjectivesmentioning

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Relational Adjectives at Interfaces

Moreno

2015

Studia Linguistica

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The paper investigates the properties of relational adjectives at the syntax/morphology interface. Specifically, it proposes an analysis of relational adjectives that accounts of the mismatch between their nominal semantics/syntax and the adjectival morphology. Relational adjectives are semantically underlying nouns but they show several syntactic properties that set them apart from nouns such as deficient number, lack of anaphoric properties and incompatibility with complex event nouns. I account for these deficiencies by analyzing them as underspecified nouns with a minimal syntactic structure on a par with the one of default mass nouns proposed by Borer (2005). Moreover, positive evidence is provided for a split classification of relational adjectives as proposed in Bosque & Picallo (1996) according to which Thematic relational adjectives are arguments of deverbal nouns while Classificatory adjectives, restrictive modifiers of simple nouns. Special focus is placed on the parallel between Thematic adjectives and genitives in Romance that provides a theoretical answer to the syntax/morphology mismatch: In the spirit of Distributed Morphology (cf. Embick & Noyer 2006), I argue that the Case features of the nouns underlying in Thematic adjectives are relevant only at PF, conditioning the choice of Vocabulary Items expressing Case: the adjectival suffix or the de genitival preposition. Studia Linguistica 69(3) 2015, pp. 304-332.

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Section: The Morpho‐syntactic Analysis Of Relational Adjectivesmentioning

confidence: 99%