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Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 2023 Peer ...
Justin D’Ambrosio, Brian Hedden
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Adjectives and the Organization of Lexical Inventories [PDF]
, 1999 A definition lexical classes is proposed based on the mapping between the prototypical semantic and the unmarked syntactic properties of nouns and verbs which at once captures cross-linguistic generalizations made by previous authors and at the same time
Beck, David
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Aesthetic Adjectives Lack Uniform Behavior [PDF]
, 2016 The goal of this short paper is to show that esthetic adjectives—exemplified by “beautiful” and “elegant”—do not pattern stably on a range of linguistic diagnostics that have been used to taxonomize the gradability properties of adjectives. We argue that
McNally, Louise +2 more
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Quantifying over hidden (parts of) events
Glossa, 2022 In this paper, I investigate certain intriguing properties of two types of quantificational adjectives exemplified by the English two-time and double and their interactions with event semantics.
Marcin Wągiel
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The syntax and semantics of degree expressions in Spanish
Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2020 This article provides an overview of the syntax and semantics of degree in Spanish, eventually suggesting that degree structure should be viewed as equivalent to aspect in the verbal domain.
Antonio Fábregas
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Syntactic Sources of Adjectives in Mandarin Chinese
Studies in Chinese Linguistics, 2016 Cinque (2010, 2014) shows that in English and Italian, adjectives have two syntactic sources, each with different interpretive properties; one source corresponding to predicative adjectives; the other to non-predicative adjectives.
Liu Feng-hsi
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Igbo adjectives as morphophonologized relatives
Studies in African Linguistics, 1990 Igbo adjectives are semantically, syntactically and morphophonologically derived. Underlyingly, they are relatives that are phonologized into a suppietive form. For this reason they cannot occur in predicative position, unlike adjectives in English. They
Omen N. Maduka-Durunze
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Suffixal Adjectives and Adjectival Participles in the Slang of Lithuanian Language
Respectus Philologicus, 2021 The article analyses 197 suffixal hybrid adjectives and 34 adjectival participles from the Lithuanian slang and non-standard dictionary. The study reveals that borrows with affixal adaptation are adapted to the language system, and the adaptive features ...
Robertas Kudirka
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Restrictions on ordering of adjectives in Spanish
Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2020 . Sequences of multiple modifying adjectives are subject to poorly understood lexical ordering restrictions. There are certain commonalities to these restrictions across languages, as well as substantive language variation.
Ana Pérez-Leroux +3 more
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Comparative alternation in y-adjectives
, 2016 There are two main ways of expressing the comparative in English adjectives. One is to precede the adjectival base with more and the other is to suffix -er to the base.
Chua, Deborah Fengyi (11708375) +2 more
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