The Syntax of Deverbal Compound Adjectives in English: Internal Structure and Categorial Identity: 14 (Sounds – Meaning – Communication: Landmarks in Phonetics, Phonology and Cognitive Linguistics) - Hardcover

Wasak

 
9783631845950: The Syntax of Deverbal Compound Adjectives in English: Internal Structure and Categorial Identity: 14 (Sounds – Meaning – Communication: Landmarks in Phonetics, Phonology and Cognitive Linguistics)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 3631845952 ISBN 13: 9783631845950
Publisher: Peter Lang, 2021

Synopsis

This volume presents research into the syntax and semantics of English deverbal compound adjectives based on the passive and active participles, e.g. pencil-drawn, action-packed, risk-taking, time-consuming. The study, couched in the current Distributed Morphology framework, uses rich linguistic data to investigate the syntactic behaviour of English participial compounds, in particular their ability to occur in typically adjectival and verbal contexts. The main claim of this work is that the verbal syntactic layers are not universally projected in the internal structure of adjectival synthetic compounds, the most important consequence of which is that linguistic formations derived from lexical verbs, even in combination with their arguments, need not be deverbal in the morphosyntactic sense.

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About the Author

Sebastian Wasak is a research associate in the Institute of Linguistics at The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin. His main research interests include word formation in Distributed Morphology (in particular, argument structure in deverbal adjectives and nominalizations) as well as synthetic and nominal compounding in English.

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Publisher
Peter Lang
Publication date
2021
Language
English
ISBN 10 
3631845952
ISBN 13 
9783631845950
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
160