Author : Isabel Oltra-Massuet
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 1614510652
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (145 download)
Book Synopsis Deverbal Adjectives at the Interface by : Isabel Oltra-Massuet
Download or read book Deverbal Adjectives at the Interface written by Isabel Oltra-Massuet and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-11-27 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.