Table of contents
Abbreviations
Chapter 1.Introduction
1.Goals and overview
1.1The empirical base
1.2Overview of the main theoretical arguments in the book
2.Nanosyntax: The spell-out procedure
2.1Phrasal Spell Out
2.2The Exhaustive Lexicalisation Principle
2.3The Superset Principle
3.Assumptions about prepositional structures and the projections they
introduce
3.1Prepositional structures
3.2Assumptions 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
3.1Non-universality
3.2Absence of positive properties and derived character
3.3Adjectives 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
3.Analysis: Relational adjectives as incomplete prepositional phrases
3.1The internal syntactic structure of relational adjectives
3.2The spell out of the structure: Phrasal Spell Out and the Superset
4.Previous analyses of the internal structure of relational adjectives
5.The external syntax of relational adjectives
5.1Deriving the syntactic position of relational adjectives
5.2Bracketing paradoxes
5.3What licenses ‘singular + singular = plural’
Chapter 4.Qualifying denominal adjectives I: Possessive and similitudinal adjectives
1.Overview of the analysis of qualifying denominal adjectives
1.1On the criteria to determine whether an adjective is qualifying
2.Possessive adjectives: Empirical properties
2.1What conceptual notions are expressed as possession?
2.2Conceptual classes of roots in the base and inalienable possession
2.3Possessive adjectives and other classes of denominal adjectives
2.4Readings of degree modification
2.5On the existence of privative adjectives
2.6On the relation between participles and possessive adjectives
3.Analysis of possessive adjectives
3.1Possessive adjectives and possessive structures
3.2The relation with the participle
3.3Underspecification: How it is solved
3.4Degree readings
4.Similitudinal adjectives: Empirical properties
4.1Conceptual properties
4.2Structural properties: Incapacity to combine with negative prefixes
5.Analysis of similitudinal adjectives
5.1SimP as a vagueness function
5.2Similitudinal adjectives as vague predicates
5.3The absence of negative similitudinal adjectives
Chapter 5.Qualifying denominal adjectives II: Causative and dispositional denominal adjectives
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
2.3 Analysis : 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
4.1
-oso and -ero
5.A brief note on parasynthesis
Chapter 6.Deverbal adjectives. Pseudo-relational adjectives
1.Overview of the analysis of deverbal adjectives
2.The problem of non-episodicity
2.1Deverbal adjectives are (mostly) non-episodic
2.2Getting non-episodicity for free
3.There are deverbal relational adjectives
4.Deverbal relational adjectives: Description
4.1Affixes, preferred readings and the availability of qualifying versions
4.2Argument structure realisation
4.3On -dor and -nte
5.Pseudo-relational adjectives: Analysis
Chapter 7.Qualifying deverbal adjectives I: Modal adjectives
1.Overview of the analysis for qualifying deverbal adjectives
2.Against a syntactic decomposition of the three classes of qualifying deverbal
adjectives
2.1The readings can be ordered by their semantic complexity
2.2However, the syntactic complexity does not increase
3.Modal adjectives: Empirical description
3.1Internal arguments and accusative case
3.2Passive and active interpretations: Modal adjectives must be passive
3.3Argument structure
3.4Aspectual modification
3.5Potentiality and obligation
3.6Other properties
4.Modal adjectives: Analysis
4.1Against AspP and ModP
4.2Potentiality and passive construals: Connection with middles
4.3Deriving the other properties
5.On the difference between -dero and -ble
Chapter 8.Qualifying deverbal adjectives II: Dispositional and habitual adjectives
1.Dispositional adjectives against habitual adjectives: Animacy
2.Dispositional adjectives: Description and analysis
2.1Active suffixes
2.2The suffix -dizo
3.Habitual adjectives: Description and analysis
Chapter 9.On the episodic reading of participles
1.Overview of the analysis
2.What this chapter is not about
3.Two classes of deverbal adjectives and two classes of deverbal nouns
4.The structure of adjectival participles in -do
4.1Against Voice in participial formations
4.2AspP does not involve a specific aspectual value
4.3The productivity of high adjectival participles
4.4The affix -do as a prepositional structure
4.5Pseudo-incorporation of by-phrases
4.6The verbal nature of low adjectival participles
5.Episodic adjectives in -nte and -dor
5.1Episodic adjectives with -nte
5.2Episodic readings with -dor
Chapter 10.Conclusions and further research paths
1.Main conclusions of the book
2.The path forward
2.1The position of adjectives and the position of prepositional structures
2.2Agreement, adjectives and determiners
2.3Affix selection
2.4Parasynthesis, theme vowels and other current mysteries
References
Index
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