The Syntax of Adjectives: A Comparative Study: 57 - Brossura

Cinque, Guglielmo

 
9780262514262: The Syntax of Adjectives: A Comparative Study: 57
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ISBN 10: 0262514265 ISBN 13: 9780262514262
Casa editrice: MIT Press, 2010

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A new analysis of adjectives, supported by comparative evidence.

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.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Guglielmo Cinque is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Venice, where he is Director of the PhD Program in Linguistics. He is the author of Types of Ā-Dependencies (MIT Press, 1990) and other books.

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Editore
MIT Press
Data di pubblicazione
2010
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0262514265
ISBN 13 
9780262514262
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
220
Contatto del produttore
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Persona responsabile
gpsr@libri.de
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ISBN 10:  0262014165 ISBN 13:  9780262014168
Casa editrice: Mit Pr, 2010
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