Buch, Englisch, 342 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 749 g
Reihe: ISSN
A Crosslinguistic Investigation into the Morphology, Syntax and Semantics of -ble
Buch, Englisch, 342 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 749 g
Reihe: ISSN
ISBN: 978-1-61451-064-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
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.
Zielgruppe
Scholars interested in morphology, (lexical) semantics, general linguistics, Romance and Germanic languages; students of linguistics in general, Romance and Germanic in particular; linguists working on the morphology-syntax-semantics interface; those conducting research in structure and meaning of adjectives.
