A0 The Lexical Status Of Adjectives
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Author | : Moreno Mitrović |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 2022-11-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 902725754X |
This volume brings together seven eminently original attempts to answer a sorely neglected question: What are adjectives? Although the positioning of adjectives as well as aspects of their semantics have been investigated in depth, their actual status as a lexical category has generally been treated superficially in the linguistic literature. In this volume, the different approaches to the categorial identity of adjectives put forward include their position in the inventory of lexical categories, the elusive noun-adjective link, the functional entourage of adjectives and their relational character, the role of concord and possession – and so on. The contributors bring different viewpoints as well as a variety of language data into the discussion, from Chinese to Indo-European, and on to Niger-Congo languages.
Author | : Phoevos Panagiotidis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2022-10-15 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9789027211460 |
This volume brings together seven eminently original attempts to answer a sorely neglected question: What are adjectives? Although the positioning of adjectives as well as aspects of their semantics have been investigated in depth, their actual status as a lexical category has generally been treated superficially in the linguistic literature. In this volume, the different approaches to the categorial identity of adjectives put forward include their position in the inventory of lexical categories, the elusive noun-adjective link, the functional entourage of adjectives and their relational character, the role of concord and possession - and so on. The contributors bring different viewpoints as well as a variety of language data into the discussion, from Chinese to Indo-European, and on to Niger-Congo languages.
Author | : Mark C. Baker |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2003-03-13 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780521001106 |
Author | : Marcin Morzycki |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 347 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1107009758 |
An accessible guide to the linguistic semantics of adjectives, adverbs, gradability, vagueness, comparatives, and modification more generally.
Author | : Patricia Cabredo Hofherr |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2010-05-06 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027288348 |
Adjectives are comparatively less well studied than the lexical categories of nouns and verbs. The present volume brings together studies in the syntax and semantics of adjectives. Four of the contributions investigate the syntax of adjectives in a variety of languages (English, French, Mandarin Chinese, Modern Hebrew, Russian, Spanish, and Serbocroatian). The theoretical issues explored include: the syntax of attributive and predicative adjectives, the syntax of nominalized adjectives and the identification of adjectives as a distinct lexical category in Mandarin Chinese. A further four contributions examine different aspects in the semantics of adjectives in English, French, and Spanish, dealing with superlatives, comparatives, and aspect in adjectives. This volume will be of interest to researchers and students in syntax, formal semantics, and language typology.
Author | : Pritha Chandra |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2014-03-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027270821 |
The present collection offers fresh perspectives on the lexicon-syntax interface, drawing on novel data from South Asian languages like Bangla, Hindi-Urdu, Kashmiri, Kannada, Malayalam, Manipuri, Punjabi, and Telugu. It covers different phenomena like adjectives, nominal phrases, ditransitives, light verbs, middles, passives, causatives, agreement, and pronominal clitics, while trying to settle the theoretical tensions underlying the interaction of the lexicon with the narrow syntactic component. All the chapters critically survey previous analyses in detail, suggesting how these may or may not be extended to South Asian languages. Novel explanations are proposed, which handle not only the novel data presented here, but also pave alternative ways to look at issues of minimalist architecture.
Author | : D. N. Shankara Bhat |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1994-01-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027230277 |
This monograph sets out (i) to establish criteria for differentiating adjectives from other word-classes for languages in which they form a distinct category, and (ii) to establish criteria for determining their (non-)identity with words from other categories for languages in which they do not. As languages show various gradations in the extent to which adjectives can be distinguished from other word-classes, the author discusses idealized language types, thereby providing a model for the analysis of natural languages.The book argues that adjectives do not uniformly show all differentiating characteristics and that these characteristics are semantically relevant and functionally motivated: for instance, when word-classes are used in functions not their own, they manifest characteristics of the categories to which the relevant functions belong.The second part of the book discusses three distinct idealized languages types without a distinct adjectival category in which property words remain undifferentiated from (i) nouns, (ii) verbs, and (iii) nouns as well as verbs. These three types are shwon to represent gradations of distinctions between word-classes as they occur in natural languages and to manifest various degrees of the corresponding functional neutralizations.In the final chapter the wider theoretical implications of this work for the study of categories are discussed.
Author | : Tine Breban |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110205807 |
Topics in English Linguistics Bernd Kortmann, University of Freiburg Elizabeth Closs Traugott, Stanford University The future of English linguistics as envisaged by the editors of Topics in English Linguistics lies in empirical studies which integrate work in English linguistics into general and theoretical linguistics on the one hand, and comparative linguistics on the other. The TiEL series features volumes that present interesting new data and analyses, and above all fresh approaches that contribute to the overall aim of the series, which is to further outstanding research in English linguistics. English Adjectives Of Comparison Tine Breban, K.U. Leuven The book is concerned with a largely unrecognized grammaticalization process: deictification, or the development from quality-attributing to deictically used adjectives in the English noun phrase. On the basis of the synchronic and diachronic corpus-study of six English adjectives of comparison, deictification is shown to involve unstudied variants of subjectification and decategorialization.
Author | : Claudia Maienborn |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 578 |
Release | : 2019-02-19 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 311062639X |
Discover vital research on the lexical and cognitive meanings of words. In this exciting book from a team of world-class researchers, in-depth articles explain a wide range of topics, including thematic roles, sense relation, ambiguity and comparison. The authors focus on the cognitive and conceptual structure of words and their meaning extensions such as coercion, metaphors and metonymies. The book features highly cited material – available in paperback for the first time since its publication – and is an essential starting point for anyone interested in lexical semantics, especially where it meets other cognitive and conceptual research.
Author | : R.M.W. Dixon |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 393 |
Release | : 2004-09-16 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0199270937 |
This book shows that every language has an adjective class and how such classes vary. Thirteen scholars report original research on languages from North, Central and South America, Europe, Africa, Asia and the Pacific. The book throws new light on the nature and classification of adjectives and redefines the cross-linguistic parameters of their variation.