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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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Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 2023 Peer ...
Justin D’Ambrosio, Brian Hedden
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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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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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, 2017 International audienceWe investigate various linguistic criteria that may be used in delineating the class of aesthetic adjectives. We also discuss the relationship between genuinely aesthetic adjectives (of which 'beautiful' and 'ugly' are paradigms ...
Mcnally, Louise, Stojanovic, Isidora
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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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Tense and modality in the nominal domain
Linguistica, 2016 It is well discussed in the literature that epistemic modals (Mod epis) are base-generated higher than Tense (T), while non-epistemic/root modals (Mod root) are base-generated lower than T, and that high modals are evaluated in the context of the speech ...
Negin Ilkhanipour
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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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Linguistik Online, 2023 In this article, written descriptions by students in the third to sixth grade (N = 288) are examined with regard to the use of syntactically differently integrated and differently complex adjectives.
Katharina Kellermann, Lukas Schmitt
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