In The Syntax of Adjectives, Guglielmo Cinque offers
cross-linguistic evidence that adjectives have two sources. Arguing
against the standard view, and reconsidering his own earlier
analysis, Cinque proposes that adjectives enter the nominal phase
either as "adverbial" modifiers to the noun or as predicates of
reduced relative clauses. Some of his evidence comes from a
systematic comparison between Romance and Germanic languages. These
two language families differ with respect to the canonical position
taken by adjectives, which is prenominal in Germanic and both pre-
and postnominal in Romance. Cinque shows that a simple
N(oun)-raising analysis encounters a number of problems, the
primary one of which is its inability to express a fundamental
generalization governing the interpretation of pre- and postnominal
adjectives in the two language families. Cinque argues that
N-raising as such should be abandoned in favor of XP-raising--a
conclusion also supported by evidence from other language families.
After developing this framework for analyzing the syntax of
adjectives, Cinque applies it to the syntax of English and Italian
adjectives. An appendix offers a brief discussion of other
languages that appear to distinguish overtly between the two
sources of adjectives.
The hardcover edition does not include a dust jacket.
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