828028270 03 01 01 JB John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 JB code LFAB 17 Eb 15 9789027257543 06 10.1075/lfab.17 13 2022024641 DG 002 02 01 LFAB 02 1877-6531 Language Faculty and Beyond 17 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">A<sup>0</sup> – The Lexical Status of Adjectives</TitleText> 01 lfab.17 01 https://benjamins.com 02 https://benjamins.com/catalog/lfab.17 1 B01 Phoevos Panagiotidis Panagiotidis, Phoevos Phoevos Panagiotidis University of Cyprus 2 B01 Moreno Mitrović Mitrović, Moreno Moreno Mitrović ZAS, Berlin 01 eng 301 v 295 LAN009060 v.2006 CFK 2 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.GENER Generative linguistics 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.SYNTAX Syntax 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.THEOR Theoretical linguistics 06 01 This volume brings together seven eminently original attempts to answer a sorely neglected question: What are adjectives? Although the positioning of adjectives as well as aspects of their semantics have been investigated in depth, their actual status as a lexical category has generally been treated superficially in the linguistic literature.<br />In this volume, the different approaches to the categorial identity of adjectives put forward include their position in the inventory of lexical categories, the elusive noun-adjective link, the functional entourage of adjectives and their relational character, the role of concord and possession – and so on. The contributors bring different viewpoints as well as a variety of language data into the discussion, from Chinese to Indo-European, and on to Niger-Congo languages. 04 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475/lfab.17.png 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_jpg/9789027211460.jpg 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_tif/9789027211460.tif 06 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_front/lfab.17.hb.png 07 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/125/lfab.17.png 25 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_back/lfab.17.hb.png 27 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/3d_web/lfab.17.hb.png 10 01 JB code lfab.17.01pan 1 11 11 Chapter 1 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Introduction</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">To adjectives, lexical categories, and this volume</Subtitle> 1 A01 Phoevos Panagiotidis Panagiotidis, Phoevos Phoevos Panagiotidis University of Cyprus 2 A01 Moreno Mitrović Mitrović, Moreno Moreno Mitrović Leibniz Centre for General Linguistics (ZAS)/Bled Institute 10 01 JB code lfab.17.p1 Section header 2 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Part I. Adjectives as a lexical category, and beyond</TitleText> 10 01 JB code lfab.17.02str 15 72 58 Chapter 3 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Universal and language-specific aspects of adjectives</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Absolute categories and relational molds</Subtitle> 1 A01 Volker Struckmeier Struckmeier, Volker Volker Struckmeier Ruhr-Universität Bochum 20 adjective 20 borrowing 20 categorial features 20 category 20 code-switching 20 root 20 word class 01 This paper argues that categoriality is a multi-layer notion. Some properties of categoriality may be cross-linguistically universal. However, other properties of linguistic categorization differ between languages. Some of these properties can be described by (non-categorial) properties of lexical items. However, we argue, another layer of categoriality are so-called molds, morpho-syntactic contexts that lexical items can appear in. Molds are, crucially, defined by items in a language other than the item to be categorized. Various phenomena in different languages, borrowing and code-switching serve to highlight the use of molds. The same phenomena also demonstrate that no lexical items can ever be truly category-less, in that all items have lexical properties which qualify them for, or disqualify them of, certain molds. 10 01 JB code lfab.17.03lar 73 120 48 Chapter 4 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Adjectives, case and concord</TitleText> 1 A01 Richard K. Larson Larson, Richard K. Richard K. Larson Stony Brook University 20 agreement 20 Bantu 20 case 20 concord 20 features 20 Iranian 20 Kinande 20 linker 20 syntax 10 01 JB code lfab.17.04ars 121 152 32 Chapter 5 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Adjectives as a lexical category</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">A story of striving for extension</Subtitle> 1 A01 Boban Arsenijević Arsenijević, Boban Boban Arsenijević University of Graz 20 adjectives 20 adverbs 20 classifier feature 20 extension 20 grammatical construct 20 intension 20 lexical categories 20 light verbs 20 prepositions 20 semantic ontology 20 taxonomic nouns 01 I argue that prepositions and adjectives form one lexical category (labeled for convenience PAd), such that prepositions are its light members in the way light verbs (be, become, cause) are members of the verbal and taxonomic nouns (place, person, event) of the nominal category. While the opposition between nouns and verbs is based on an ontological restriction, modelled as the value of the classifier feature, PAd is characterized by the inability to establish reference, i.e. by an unvalued classifier feature. Surface asymmetries between traditional adjectives and prepositions are discussed and either refuted or explained away in terms of the proposed differences in the richness of lexical semantics and the underlying structural differences. 10 01 JB code lfab.17.p2 Section header 6 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Part II. Adjectives and the nominal domain</TitleText> 10 01 JB code lfab.17.05ade 155 186 32 Chapter 7 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Nominal Attributive Modifiers (NAMs) in Ògè</TitleText> 1 A01 Priscilla Adenuga Adenuga, Priscilla Priscilla Adenuga 20 adjunct 20 attributive 20 dependent 20 features 20 genitives 20 independent 20 modifier 20 nominal 20 Ògè 20 predicative 01 This paper examines the syntax of adjectives in the Ògè language and argues that attributive adjectives in Ògè are nominal. Attributive adjectives are called Nominal Attributive Modifiers (NAMs) in this work. Adopting the notion of dependent and independent features as introduced in Zeijlstra (2020), this paper shows that the grammaticality of NAM depends on the modified noun in attributive expressions in Ògè. For NAMs that are not in a local relationship with the modified noun, evidence is given to show that such expressions are genitives or possessives. Accordingly, I analyze NAM as adjuncts in modification expressions. Finally, I show that the adjunct (NAM) is involved in feature checking which further contributes to the label ‘[N]’ for the concatenation of a NAM with a Noun. 10 01 JB code lfab.17.06hu 187 216 30 Chapter 8 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Property, possession, and adjectives</TitleText> 1 A01 Xuhui Hu Hu, Xuhui Xuhui Hu 20 adjectival predication 20 possessive construction 20 property concept 20 syntactic variation 01 This paper rethinks the nature of possessive property concept (PC) construction which provides an account for the cross-linguistic variation regarding the constructions of possessive strategy and adjectival predication for the expression of PC predication. It is argued that the possessive PC construction in Chinese is in nature an adjectival one (in line with Y. Zhang 2020), hence is syntactically different from ownership possessive constructions. Based on Hu and Perry (2020), it is argued that the derivation of an adjective involves a possessive predication phrase (PossP) headed by a special Possessive head Poss, which establishes a possessive relationship between a subject in [Spec PossP] and a characteristic property denoted by the complement of Poss. In Chinese, the phonologically null vocabulary item (VI) of Poss feature has an insertion framework condition that requires it to be spelt-out in a complex head. This special property of Poss VI is responsible for a series of issues including the licensing conditions for bare adjectives in Chinese, the variation between Chinese and languages like English regarding the existence of possessive PC constructions, among others. 10 01 JB code lfab.17.p3 Section header 9 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Part III. Adjectives and the interfaces</TitleText> 10 01 JB code lfab.17.07nit 219 256 38 Chapter 10 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">On the extended projection of German adjectives</TitleText> 1 A01 Remo Nitschke Nitschke, Remo Remo Nitschke 20 adjectives 20 comparative 20 degree expressions 20 Extended Projection 20 superlative 01 This chapter proposes a possible Extended Projection (EP) for German adjectives. It builds on previous work by Neeleman et al. (2004) on the English and Dutch adjectival EP. Based on work by Bobaljik (2012), this work also proposes that the comparative and superlative heads are part of the EP. We show that this proposal can be unified with the Neeleman et al. (2004) structure, by assuming Matushansky (2006)-style head-movement. The chapter then considers how different functional heads fit in the adjectival EP. Based on tests proposed by Neeleman et al. (2004), we find that some functional heads, such as viel (much) and zu (too), are part of the EP, while others, such as differentials, are not. While Neeleman et al. (2004) do not consider English “much" part of the adjectival EP, we show that, by the measure of their own tests, its German equivalent (viel) should be part of the German EP. 10 01 JB code lfab.17.08mit 257 292 36 Chapter 11 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">First-phase semantics</TitleText> 1 A01 Moreno Mitrović Mitrović, Moreno Moreno Mitrović Leibniz Centre for General Linguistics (ZAS)/Berlin & Bled Institute 20 adjectives, adjectival meaning 20 adverb 20 defectivity 20 derivation by phase 20 English 20 first-phase 20 interpretation theory, totality, partiality 20 lexical categories, meaning, interpretation 20 nouns, nominal meaning 20 phi-features 20 predicates, set 20 property 20 semantic compositionality 20 Slovenian 20 sort theory 20 type theory, multi-sorted 20 verbs, verbal meaning 01 Everything else being equal, the procedural principles of interpretational composition should abide by the morphosyntactic structure that is provided to the conceptual intentional interface, in its totality and without stipulative exception. To equip the theory of mapping and interpretation with stipulations that would ‘skip’ or ignore nodes would mean ridding that theory of the principle-based power of explanation it is presumably designed to provide. It seems an undesirable consequence to me to end up with a model in which most morphemes are void of meaning or some kind of contribution to meaning. A foundational lexical structure, qua First Phase, containing an acategorial root and a categorising head, has not received a principled analysis which would not pull cheap tricks and attempt to assign denotation, or at least non-void denotational properties, to the categorial (n, v) formatives and the acategorial loci of lexical meaning (roots). This paper sketches a programme for doing exactly that: semantics at Phase One of the morphosyntactic derivation. 10 01 JB code lfab.17.index 293 295 3 Miscellaneous 12 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Index</TitleText> 02 JBENJAMINS John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam/Philadelphia NL 04 20221124 2022 John Benjamins B.V. 02 WORLD 13 15 9789027211460 01 JB 3 John Benjamins e-Platform 03 jbe-platform.com 09 WORLD 21 01 00 99.00 EUR R 01 00 83.00 GBP Z 01 gen 00 149.00 USD S 556028269 03 01 01 JB John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 JB code LFAB 17 Hb 15 9789027211460 13 2022024640 BB 01 LFAB 02 1877-6531 Language Faculty and Beyond 17 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">A<sup>0</sup> – The Lexical Status of Adjectives</TitleText> 01 lfab.17 01 https://benjamins.com 02 https://benjamins.com/catalog/lfab.17 1 B01 Phoevos Panagiotidis Panagiotidis, Phoevos Phoevos Panagiotidis University of Cyprus 2 B01 Moreno Mitrović Mitrović, Moreno Moreno Mitrović ZAS, Berlin 01 eng 301 v 295 LAN009060 v.2006 CFK 2 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.GENER Generative linguistics 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.SYNTAX Syntax 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.THEOR Theoretical linguistics 06 01 This volume brings together seven eminently original attempts to answer a sorely neglected question: What are adjectives? Although the positioning of adjectives as well as aspects of their semantics have been investigated in depth, their actual status as a lexical category has generally been treated superficially in the linguistic literature.<br />In this volume, the different approaches to the categorial identity of adjectives put forward include their position in the inventory of lexical categories, the elusive noun-adjective link, the functional entourage of adjectives and their relational character, the role of concord and possession – and so on. The contributors bring different viewpoints as well as a variety of language data into the discussion, from Chinese to Indo-European, and on to Niger-Congo languages. 04 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475/lfab.17.png 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_jpg/9789027211460.jpg 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_tif/9789027211460.tif 06 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_front/lfab.17.hb.png 07 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/125/lfab.17.png 25 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_back/lfab.17.hb.png 27 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/3d_web/lfab.17.hb.png 10 01 JB code lfab.17.01pan 1 11 11 Chapter 1 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Introduction</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">To adjectives, lexical categories, and this volume</Subtitle> 1 A01 Phoevos Panagiotidis Panagiotidis, Phoevos Phoevos Panagiotidis University of Cyprus 2 A01 Moreno Mitrović Mitrović, Moreno Moreno Mitrović Leibniz Centre for General Linguistics (ZAS)/Bled Institute 10 01 JB code lfab.17.p1 Section header 2 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Part I. Adjectives as a lexical category, and beyond</TitleText> 10 01 JB code lfab.17.02str 15 72 58 Chapter 3 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Universal and language-specific aspects of adjectives</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Absolute categories and relational molds</Subtitle> 1 A01 Volker Struckmeier Struckmeier, Volker Volker Struckmeier Ruhr-Universität Bochum 20 adjective 20 borrowing 20 categorial features 20 category 20 code-switching 20 root 20 word class 01 This paper argues that categoriality is a multi-layer notion. Some properties of categoriality may be cross-linguistically universal. However, other properties of linguistic categorization differ between languages. Some of these properties can be described by (non-categorial) properties of lexical items. However, we argue, another layer of categoriality are so-called molds, morpho-syntactic contexts that lexical items can appear in. Molds are, crucially, defined by items in a language other than the item to be categorized. Various phenomena in different languages, borrowing and code-switching serve to highlight the use of molds. The same phenomena also demonstrate that no lexical items can ever be truly category-less, in that all items have lexical properties which qualify them for, or disqualify them of, certain molds. 10 01 JB code lfab.17.03lar 73 120 48 Chapter 4 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Adjectives, case and concord</TitleText> 1 A01 Richard K. Larson Larson, Richard K. Richard K. Larson Stony Brook University 20 agreement 20 Bantu 20 case 20 concord 20 features 20 Iranian 20 Kinande 20 linker 20 syntax 10 01 JB code lfab.17.04ars 121 152 32 Chapter 5 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Adjectives as a lexical category</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">A story of striving for extension</Subtitle> 1 A01 Boban Arsenijević Arsenijević, Boban Boban Arsenijević University of Graz 20 adjectives 20 adverbs 20 classifier feature 20 extension 20 grammatical construct 20 intension 20 lexical categories 20 light verbs 20 prepositions 20 semantic ontology 20 taxonomic nouns 01 I argue that prepositions and adjectives form one lexical category (labeled for convenience PAd), such that prepositions are its light members in the way light verbs (be, become, cause) are members of the verbal and taxonomic nouns (place, person, event) of the nominal category. While the opposition between nouns and verbs is based on an ontological restriction, modelled as the value of the classifier feature, PAd is characterized by the inability to establish reference, i.e. by an unvalued classifier feature. Surface asymmetries between traditional adjectives and prepositions are discussed and either refuted or explained away in terms of the proposed differences in the richness of lexical semantics and the underlying structural differences. 10 01 JB code lfab.17.p2 Section header 6 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Part II. Adjectives and the nominal domain</TitleText> 10 01 JB code lfab.17.05ade 155 186 32 Chapter 7 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Nominal Attributive Modifiers (NAMs) in Ògè</TitleText> 1 A01 Priscilla Adenuga Adenuga, Priscilla Priscilla Adenuga 20 adjunct 20 attributive 20 dependent 20 features 20 genitives 20 independent 20 modifier 20 nominal 20 Ògè 20 predicative 01 This paper examines the syntax of adjectives in the Ògè language and argues that attributive adjectives in Ògè are nominal. Attributive adjectives are called Nominal Attributive Modifiers (NAMs) in this work. Adopting the notion of dependent and independent features as introduced in Zeijlstra (2020), this paper shows that the grammaticality of NAM depends on the modified noun in attributive expressions in Ògè. For NAMs that are not in a local relationship with the modified noun, evidence is given to show that such expressions are genitives or possessives. Accordingly, I analyze NAM as adjuncts in modification expressions. Finally, I show that the adjunct (NAM) is involved in feature checking which further contributes to the label ‘[N]’ for the concatenation of a NAM with a Noun. 10 01 JB code lfab.17.06hu 187 216 30 Chapter 8 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Property, possession, and adjectives</TitleText> 1 A01 Xuhui Hu Hu, Xuhui Xuhui Hu 20 adjectival predication 20 possessive construction 20 property concept 20 syntactic variation 01 This paper rethinks the nature of possessive property concept (PC) construction which provides an account for the cross-linguistic variation regarding the constructions of possessive strategy and adjectival predication for the expression of PC predication. It is argued that the possessive PC construction in Chinese is in nature an adjectival one (in line with Y. Zhang 2020), hence is syntactically different from ownership possessive constructions. Based on Hu and Perry (2020), it is argued that the derivation of an adjective involves a possessive predication phrase (PossP) headed by a special Possessive head Poss, which establishes a possessive relationship between a subject in [Spec PossP] and a characteristic property denoted by the complement of Poss. In Chinese, the phonologically null vocabulary item (VI) of Poss feature has an insertion framework condition that requires it to be spelt-out in a complex head. This special property of Poss VI is responsible for a series of issues including the licensing conditions for bare adjectives in Chinese, the variation between Chinese and languages like English regarding the existence of possessive PC constructions, among others. 10 01 JB code lfab.17.p3 Section header 9 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Part III. Adjectives and the interfaces</TitleText> 10 01 JB code lfab.17.07nit 219 256 38 Chapter 10 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">On the extended projection of German adjectives</TitleText> 1 A01 Remo Nitschke Nitschke, Remo Remo Nitschke 20 adjectives 20 comparative 20 degree expressions 20 Extended Projection 20 superlative 01 This chapter proposes a possible Extended Projection (EP) for German adjectives. It builds on previous work by Neeleman et al. (2004) on the English and Dutch adjectival EP. Based on work by Bobaljik (2012), this work also proposes that the comparative and superlative heads are part of the EP. We show that this proposal can be unified with the Neeleman et al. (2004) structure, by assuming Matushansky (2006)-style head-movement. The chapter then considers how different functional heads fit in the adjectival EP. Based on tests proposed by Neeleman et al. (2004), we find that some functional heads, such as viel (much) and zu (too), are part of the EP, while others, such as differentials, are not. While Neeleman et al. (2004) do not consider English “much" part of the adjectival EP, we show that, by the measure of their own tests, its German equivalent (viel) should be part of the German EP. 10 01 JB code lfab.17.08mit 257 292 36 Chapter 11 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">First-phase semantics</TitleText> 1 A01 Moreno Mitrović Mitrović, Moreno Moreno Mitrović Leibniz Centre for General Linguistics (ZAS)/Berlin & Bled Institute 20 adjectives, adjectival meaning 20 adverb 20 defectivity 20 derivation by phase 20 English 20 first-phase 20 interpretation theory, totality, partiality 20 lexical categories, meaning, interpretation 20 nouns, nominal meaning 20 phi-features 20 predicates, set 20 property 20 semantic compositionality 20 Slovenian 20 sort theory 20 type theory, multi-sorted 20 verbs, verbal meaning 01 Everything else being equal, the procedural principles of interpretational composition should abide by the morphosyntactic structure that is provided to the conceptual intentional interface, in its totality and without stipulative exception. To equip the theory of mapping and interpretation with stipulations that would ‘skip’ or ignore nodes would mean ridding that theory of the principle-based power of explanation it is presumably designed to provide. It seems an undesirable consequence to me to end up with a model in which most morphemes are void of meaning or some kind of contribution to meaning. A foundational lexical structure, qua First Phase, containing an acategorial root and a categorising head, has not received a principled analysis which would not pull cheap tricks and attempt to assign denotation, or at least non-void denotational properties, to the categorial (n, v) formatives and the acategorial loci of lexical meaning (roots). This paper sketches a programme for doing exactly that: semantics at Phase One of the morphosyntactic derivation. 10 01 JB code lfab.17.index 293 295 3 Miscellaneous 12 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Index</TitleText> 02 JBENJAMINS John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam/Philadelphia NL 04 20221124 2022 John Benjamins B.V. 02 WORLD 08 680 gr 01 JB 1 John Benjamins Publishing Company +31 20 6304747 +31 20 6739773 bookorder@benjamins.nl 01 https://benjamins.com 01 WORLD US CA MX 21 59 01 02 JB 1 00 99.00 EUR R 02 02 JB 1 00 104.94 EUR R 01 JB 10 bebc +44 1202 712 934 +44 1202 712 913 sales@bebc.co.uk 03 GB 21 02 02 JB 1 00 83.00 GBP Z 01 JB 2 John Benjamins North America +1 800 562-5666 +1 703 661-1501 benjamins@presswarehouse.com 01 https://benjamins.com 01 US CA MX 21 5 01 gen 02 JB 1 00 149.00 USD