Adjectival Modification and Order Restrictions - The Influence of Temporariness on Prenominal Word Order (Hardcover)

This monographs investigates into the influence of the individual-/stage-level distinction (IL/SL) on order restrictions of multiple prenominal adjectives (AORs). It rejects the restriction regularly postulated-across different research frameworks-that SL-adjectives are being realized farther from the head noun than IL-adjectives, relegating the alleged constraint to an epiphenomenon of more general principles. While formal-theoretic hypotheses on AORs are formulated and put to the test empirically via a large corpus as well as two rating studies, the book also addresses adjective classification, modification patterns, and the IL-SL-debate in general. The preferred prenominal positions of typical SL-adjectives are argued to follow from their nature as absolute-gradable adjectives as well as from the distinction between object- and kind-modification. The empirical studies corroborate these considerations. The book critically discusses and opposes several well-established hypotheses on AORs, sketches a flexible and parsimonious syntax of adjectival modification, and will be of interest to syntacticians and semanticists working on DP-structure, the IL-SL-debate, and adjectival modification

General

Imprint:	De Gruyter
Country of origin:	Germany
Series:	Studia grammatica
Release date:	September 2016
First published:	2016
Authors:	Sven Kotowski
Dimensions:	230 x 155 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	273
ISBN-13:	978-3-11-047638-5
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > General Promotions
LSN:	3-11-047638-X
Barcode:	9783110476385

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