Oltra-Massuet Deverbal Adjectives at the Interface

A Crosslinguistic Investigation into the Morphology, Syntax and Semantics of -ble
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-61451-065-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 28, 356 Seiten

Reihe: Interface Explorations [IE]

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Oltra-Massuet, Isabel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Acknowledgements;7
2;Content;9
3;List of abbreviations;13
4;1 Introduction;15
5;2 -BLE;38
6;3 Case Study 1: V todo lo Vble;179
7;4 Case study 2: N-ble;267
8;5 Conclusions and directions for further research;319
9;References;333
10;Index;353

Über Autor(innen)

Isabel Oltra-Massuet, Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales — Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CCHS-CSIC), Madrid, Spain.