Where have All the Adjectives Gone?

Dixon, R. M. W.

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“…This puts them partly in the same business as adjectives and adverbs, and renders them relevant to typologies of manner and property-denoting expressions. In an influential typological treatment of such modifying expressions, Dixon (1982) proposed a continuum from strongly adjectival to strongly verbal languages. Ideophones do not figure in this typology, nor in most later comparative work on adjectival classes (Dixon & Aikhenvald 2004).…”

Section: Typology: Ideophones As a Major Lexical Classmentioning

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Redrawing the margins of language: Lessons from research on ideophones

Dingemanse

2018

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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Ideophones (also known as expressives or mimetics, and including onomatopoeia) have been systematically studied in linguistics since the 1850s, when they were first described as a lexical class of vivid sensory words in West-African languages. This paper surveys the research history of ideophones, from its roots in African linguistics to its fruits in general linguistics and typology around the globe. It shows that despite a recurrent narrative of marginalisation, work on ideophones has made an impact in many areas of linguistics, from theories of phonological features to typologies of manner and motion, and from sound symbolism to sensory language. Due to their hybrid nature as gradient vocal gestures that grow roots in discrete linguistic systems, ideophones provide opportunities to reframe typological questions, reconsider the role of language ideology in linguistic scholarship, and rethink the margins of language. With ideophones increasingly being brought into the fold of the language sciences, this review synthesises past theoretical insights and empirical findings in order to enable future work to build on them.

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Section: Typology: Ideophones As a Major Lexical Classmentioning

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Redrawing the margins of language: Lessons from research on ideophones

Dingemanse

2018

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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“…The most influential conceptual classification of adjectives is due to Dixon (1982), and is as follows: (42) Dixon's proposal was that these classes define the natural order of adjectives in the sequence, with colour being the most internal one of the adjectives with respect to the noun, and value being the most external one.…”

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The syntax and semantics of nominal modifiers in Spanish: interpretations, types and ordering facts

Fábregas

2017

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ABSTRACT. This article provides an overview of the main facts and theories regarding nominal modifiers, with attention to the internal division of the low DP-structure (gender, number and N). The article presents first the notion of modification seen from the perspectives of semantics and syntax ( §1); adjective classes are discussed in §2. §3 discusses the contrasts between prenominal and postnominal adjectives; §4 discusses the ordering of adjectives in sequences; §5 reviews the main theories that account for the facts discussed in §3 and §4. §6 moves to prepositional modifiers, presenting facts and theories about them. §7 presents the conclusions.Keywords. modification; adjectives; intersectivity; restrictivity; adjective ordering; prepositional modifiers; gender; number; nominal domains RESUMEN. Este artículo consiste en una revisión de los principales hechos empíricos y teorías acerca de la modificación nominal, con atención a la división interna del área baja del SD (género, número, N). El artículo presenta primero la noción de modificación vista desde la perspectiva de la semántica y la sintaxis ( §1); las clases de adjetivos se presentan en §2. §3 habla de los contrastes entre adjetivos prenominales y adjetivos postnominales.§4 presenta el orden de adjetivos cuando aparecen en secuencias. §5 discute las principales teorías que han tratado de capturar los contrastes empíricos de §3 y §4. §6 se dedica a los modificadores preposicionales, considerando los hechos empíricos y las teorías acerca de ellos. §7 presenta las conclusiones.Palabras clave. modificación; adjetivos; intersectividad; restrictividad; orden de adjetivos; modificadores preposicionales; género; número; dominios nominalesThe goal of this article is to discuss the main facts (and theories thereof) relating to the empirical problem of how modification structures are established within the DP; by extension, the syntax of the lower domains of the DP will be examined. The article is structured as follows: §1 provides a quick overview of the main theories about the syntax and semantics of nominal modification, and presents the range of constituents that can act as nominal modifiers. Sections §2- §5 concentrate on the syntax and semantics of adjectives and adjective sequences in Spanish. We present first ( §2) the taxonomy of the grammatically relevant classes of adjectives, then their ordering facts attending to the prenominal vs. postnominal contrast ( §3) and the internal ordering of adjectives within sequences ( §4) and, finally, the main theories to account for these orderings ( §5). §6 is devoted to prepositional modifiers, taking into account their position and the proposals explaining their ordering and properties. §7 presents the conclusions and standing issues.1 1 This article does not cover the case of adjectives that share properties with quantifiers (diferente 'different'), determiners (cierto 'certain') and pronouns (mismo 'self'); this aspect of the grammar of adjectives in Spanish will be discussed in a future monographic issue.

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“…A number of semantic, syntactic and morphological criteria are used in classifications proposed by various authors, for instance, central and peripheral (Quirk et al, 1972), or emotional and rational evaluation (Starostina, 2013). Numerous semantic classifications of adjectives are proposed in literature that are based on concrete or abstract semantic criteria with the number of semantic classes varying from ten (Dixon, 1982) to twenty four (Lee, 1994).…”

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Evaluative Language in English Job Advertisements in Diachronic Perspective

Kochetova¹,

Volodchenkova²

2015

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The received view has it that genres are subject to historical changes with respect to their functional and language features. The purpose of this article is to examine changes in the evaluation language employed in the genre of British job advertisement, in this way revealing shifts and developments in this type of discourse practice. Drawing on evidence from the corpus of job advertisements published in the Times, the national British newspaper, in the period between 1896 and 2006, this paper proposes an analysis of evaluative language usage in three collections of job advertisements from late nineteenth, middle twentieth centuries, and the 2000s. The regularities present in the data were calculated manually for every period under consideration. The comparative analysis of the data obtained for each of the synchronic layers introduces diachronic perspective into the study by revealing changes in evaluative language throughout the periods as they are reflected in an average ratio of adjectives per text, distribution of evaluative and descriptive adjectives, frequency of the entities evaluated and semantic variation of the adjectives used to evaluate entities. The aim of the study is to understand the changing role of evaluation in the genre, the way evaluative adjectives work, the role they play in persuading the applicant.

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Where have All the Adjectives Gone?

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Redrawing the margins of language: Lessons from research on ideophones

Redrawing the margins of language: Lessons from research on ideophones

The syntax and semantics of nominal modifiers in Spanish: interpretations, types and ordering facts

Evaluative Language in English Job Advertisements in Diachronic Perspective

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