Chapter 5
Qualifying denominal adjectives II
Causative and dispositional denominal adjectives
Article outline
- 1.Causative adjectives
- 1.1Empirical properties
- 1.2Analysis
- 2.Dispositional denominal adjectives
- 2.1Empirical properties
- 2.2Qualia structure is involved (at least) in dispositional denominal
adjectives
- 2.3Analysis: The suffix -ista
- 3.Why only four conceptual classes of qualifying denominal adjectives?
- 3.1Hyper-specific denominal adjectivalisers as evidence for a conceptual
distinction
- 3.2Against a syntactic decomposition approach
- 3.3Against an account based on scalar properties
- 4.Affixes that produce adjectives of two or more classes
- 5.A brief note on parasynthesis
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Notes