TY  - BOOK
AU  - Oltra-Massuet,Isabel
TI  - Deverbal Adjectives at the Interface: A Crosslinguistic Investigation into the Morphology, Syntax and Semantics of -ble 
T2  - Interface Explorations [IE] ,
SN  - 9781614510642
AV  - PE1241 .O58 2014eb
U1  - 425/.5 23
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston
PB  - De Gruyter Mouton
KW  - English language
KW  - Adjective
KW  - Grammar, Comparative
KW  - Spanish
KW  - Suffixes and prefixes
KW  - Verb
KW  - Morphology
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Spanish language
KW  - English
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614510659
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781614510659
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781614510659/original
ER  -