Adjectival Modification and Order Restrictions: The Influence of Temporariness on Prenominal Word Order: 80 (Studia grammatica, 80) - Hardcover

Kotowski

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 311047638X ISBN 13: 9783110476385

Publisher: De Gruyter, 2016

Synopsis

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

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Sven Kotowski, University of Düsseldorf, Germany.

Sven Kotowski, Universität Düsseldorf.

Edition details

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 311047638X
• ISBN 13: 9783110476385
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 274