Morphologically derived adjectives in Spanish

Morphologically derived adjectives in Spanish

by Fábregas, Antonio

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"This is the first book that presents a complete empirical description and theoretical analysis of all major classes of derived adjectives in Spanish, both deverbal and denominal. The reader will find here both a detailed empirical description of the syntactic, morphological and semantic properties of derived adjectives in contemporary Spanish and a cohesive Neo-Constructionist analysis of the syntactic and semantic tools that contemporary Spanish has available to build adjectives from other gr…

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  • Full title :Morphologically derived adjectives in Spanish / Antonio Fábregas, UiT The Arctic University of Norway.

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"This is the first book that presents a complete empirical description and theoretical analysis of all major classes of derived adjectives in Spanish, both deverbal and denominal. The reader will find here both a detailed empirical description of the syntactic, morphological and semantic properties of derived adjectives in contemporary Spanish and a cohesive Neo-Constructionist analysis of the syntactic and semantic tools that contemporary Spanish has available to build adjectives from other grammatical categories within a Nanosyntactic-oriented framework. In doing so, this book throws light on the nature of adjectives as a grammatical categoy and argues that adjectives are syntactically built by recycling functional heads belonging to other categories. The book will be useful both to researchers in Spanish linguistics or theoretical morphology and to advanced students of Spanish interested in the main ways of building new adjectives through suffixation in this language"--

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2020

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The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (ix, 377 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9789027260338, 9027260338
  • oclc:on1198990111
  • LC Classification:PC4241
  • Dewey Decimal:465/.5

Table of Contents

Intro -- Morphologically Derived Adjectives in Spanish -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- 1. Goals and overview -- 1.1 The empirical base -- 1.2 Overview of the main theoretical argument in the book -- 2. Nanosyntax: The spell-out procedure -- 2.1 Phrasal Spell Out -- 2.2 The Exhaustive Lexicalisation Principle -- 2.3 The Superset Principle -- 3. Assumptions about prepositional structures and the projections they introduce -- 3.1 Prepositional structures -- 3.2 Assumptions about case -- 4. The chapters

Chapter 2. The problem with (complex) adjectives -- 1. Lexical categories: Essentialist and distributionalist theories -- 2. The heterogeneity of the adjectival class -- 3. Against the essentialist definition of adjectives -- 3.1 Non-universality -- 3.2 Absence of positive properties and derived character -- 3.3 Adjectives do not form a natural class in Spanish -- 4. Consequences for morphological analysis -- 5. Head recycling and adjective formation -- Chapter 3. Denominal relational adjectives -- 1. Sketch of the analysis -- 2. Empirical properties of relational adjectives

A. Adjacency to the modi…

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Subjects

Espagnol (Langue) -- Adjectif Espagnol (Langue) -- Morphologie Spanish language -- Adjective Spanish language -- Morphology

Writers

Fábregas, Antonio

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