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Deverbal Adjectives at the Interface : A Crosslinguistic Investigation into the Morphology, Syntax and Semantics of -ble / Isabel Oltra-Massuet.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Interface Explorations [IE] ; 28Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2013]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (342 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781614510642
  • 9781614510659
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 425/.5 23
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  • PE1241 .O58 2014eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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