556028269 03 01 01 JB code JB John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 JB code LFAB 17 Hb 15 9789027211460 06 10.1075/lfab.17 13 2022024640 00 BB 08 680 gr 10 01 JB code LFAB 02 1877-6531 02 17.00 01 02 Language Faculty and Beyond Language Faculty and Beyond 01 01 A0 - The Lexical Status of Adjectives A0 – The Lexical Status of Adjectives 1 B01 01 JB code 248438297 Phoevos Panagiotidis Panagiotidis, Phoevos Phoevos Panagiotidis University of Cyprus 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/248438297 2 B01 01 JB code 894438298 Moreno Mitrović Mitrović, Moreno Moreno Mitrović ZAS, Berlin 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/894438298 01 eng 11 301 03 03 v 03 00 295 03 10 LAN009060 12 CFK 24 JB code LIN.GENER Generative linguistics 24 JB code LIN.SYNTAX Syntax 24 JB code LIN.THEOR Theoretical linguistics 01 06 02 00 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. 03 00 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.
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.
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01 01 JB code lfab.17.01pan 06 10.1075/lfab.17.01pan 1 11 11 Chapter 1 01 04 Introduction Introduction 01 04 To adjectives, lexical categories, and this volume To adjectives, lexical categories, and this volume 1 A01 01 JB code 774443918 Phoevos Panagiotidis Panagiotidis, Phoevos Phoevos Panagiotidis University of Cyprus 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/774443918 2 A01 01 JB code 108443919 Moreno Mitrović Mitrović, Moreno Moreno Mitrović Leibniz Centre for General Linguistics (ZAS)/Bled Institute 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/108443919 01 eng 01 01 JB code lfab.17.p1 06 10.1075/lfab.17.p1 Section header 2 01 04 Part I. Adjectives as a lexical category, and beyond Part I. Adjectives as a lexical category, and beyond 01 eng 01 01 JB code lfab.17.02str 06 10.1075/lfab.17.02str 15 72 58 Chapter 3 01 04 Universal and language-specific aspects of adjectives Universal and language-specific aspects of adjectives 01 04 Absolute categories and relational molds Absolute categories and relational molds 1 A01 01 JB code 929443920 Volker Struckmeier Struckmeier, Volker Volker Struckmeier Ruhr-Universität Bochum 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/929443920 01 eng 30 00 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. 01 01 JB code lfab.17.03lar 06 10.1075/lfab.17.03lar 73 120 48 Chapter 4 01 04 Adjectives, case and concord Adjectives, case and concord 1 A01 01 JB code 406443921 Richard K. Larson Larson, Richard K. Richard K. Larson Stony Brook University 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/406443921 01 eng 01 01 JB code lfab.17.04ars 06 10.1075/lfab.17.04ars 121 152 32 Chapter 5 01 04 Adjectives as a lexical category Adjectives as a lexical category 01 04 A story of striving for extension A story of striving for extension 1 A01 01 JB code 251443922 Boban Arsenijević Arsenijević, Boban Boban Arsenijević University of Graz 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/251443922 01 eng 30 00 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. 01 01 JB code lfab.17.p2 06 10.1075/lfab.17.p2 Section header 6 01 04 Part II. Adjectives and the nominal domain Part II. Adjectives and the nominal domain 01 eng 01 01 JB code lfab.17.05ade 06 10.1075/lfab.17.05ade 155 186 32 Chapter 7 01 04 Nominal Attributive Modifiers (NAMs) in Oge Nominal Attributive Modifiers (NAMs) in Ògè 1 A01 01 JB code 79443923 Priscilla Adenuga Adenuga, Priscilla Priscilla Adenuga 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/79443923 01 eng 30 00 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. 01 01 JB code lfab.17.06hu 06 10.1075/lfab.17.06hu 187 216 30 Chapter 8 01 04 Property, possession, and adjectives Property, possession, and adjectives 1 A01 01 JB code 814443924 Xuhui Hu Hu, Xuhui Xuhui Hu 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/814443924 01 eng 30 00 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. 01 01 JB code lfab.17.p3 06 10.1075/lfab.17.p3 Section header 9 01 04 Part III. Adjectives and the interfaces Part III. Adjectives and the interfaces 01 eng 01 01 JB code lfab.17.07nit 06 10.1075/lfab.17.07nit 219 256 38 Chapter 10 01 04 On the extended projection of German adjectives On the extended projection of German adjectives 1 A01 01 JB code 640443925 Remo Nitschke Nitschke, Remo Remo Nitschke 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/640443925 01 eng 30 00 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. 01 01 JB code lfab.17.08mit 06 10.1075/lfab.17.08mit 257 292 36 Chapter 11 01 04 First-phase semantics First-phase semantics 1 A01 01 JB code 79443926 Moreno Mitrović Mitrović, Moreno Moreno Mitrović Leibniz Centre for General Linguistics (ZAS)/Berlin & Bled Institute 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/79443926 01 eng 30 00 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). 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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.
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01 01 JB code lfab.17.01pan 06 10.1075/lfab.17.01pan 1 11 11 Chapter 1 01 04 Introduction Introduction 01 04 To adjectives, lexical categories, and this volume To adjectives, lexical categories, and this volume 1 A01 01 JB code 774443918 Phoevos Panagiotidis Panagiotidis, Phoevos Phoevos Panagiotidis University of Cyprus 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/774443918 2 A01 01 JB code 108443919 Moreno Mitrović Mitrović, Moreno Moreno Mitrović Leibniz Centre for General Linguistics (ZAS)/Bled Institute 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/108443919 01 eng 01 01 JB code lfab.17.p1 06 10.1075/lfab.17.p1 Section header 2 01 04 Part I. Adjectives as a lexical category, and beyond Part I. Adjectives as a lexical category, and beyond 01 eng 01 01 JB code lfab.17.02str 06 10.1075/lfab.17.02str 15 72 58 Chapter 3 01 04 Universal and language-specific aspects of adjectives Universal and language-specific aspects of adjectives 01 04 Absolute categories and relational molds Absolute categories and relational molds 1 A01 01 JB code 929443920 Volker Struckmeier Struckmeier, Volker Volker Struckmeier Ruhr-Universität Bochum 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/929443920 01 eng 30 00 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. 01 01 JB code lfab.17.03lar 06 10.1075/lfab.17.03lar 73 120 48 Chapter 4 01 04 Adjectives, case and concord Adjectives, case and concord 1 A01 01 JB code 406443921 Richard K. Larson Larson, Richard K. Richard K. Larson Stony Brook University 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/406443921 01 eng 01 01 JB code lfab.17.04ars 06 10.1075/lfab.17.04ars 121 152 32 Chapter 5 01 04 Adjectives as a lexical category Adjectives as a lexical category 01 04 A story of striving for extension A story of striving for extension 1 A01 01 JB code 251443922 Boban Arsenijević Arsenijević, Boban Boban Arsenijević University of Graz 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/251443922 01 eng 30 00 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. 01 01 JB code lfab.17.p2 06 10.1075/lfab.17.p2 Section header 6 01 04 Part II. Adjectives and the nominal domain Part II. Adjectives and the nominal domain 01 eng 01 01 JB code lfab.17.05ade 06 10.1075/lfab.17.05ade 155 186 32 Chapter 7 01 04 Nominal Attributive Modifiers (NAMs) in Oge Nominal Attributive Modifiers (NAMs) in Ògè 1 A01 01 JB code 79443923 Priscilla Adenuga Adenuga, Priscilla Priscilla Adenuga 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/79443923 01 eng 30 00 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. 01 01 JB code lfab.17.06hu 06 10.1075/lfab.17.06hu 187 216 30 Chapter 8 01 04 Property, possession, and adjectives Property, possession, and adjectives 1 A01 01 JB code 814443924 Xuhui Hu Hu, Xuhui Xuhui Hu 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/814443924 01 eng 30 00 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. 01 01 JB code lfab.17.p3 06 10.1075/lfab.17.p3 Section header 9 01 04 Part III. Adjectives and the interfaces Part III. Adjectives and the interfaces 01 eng 01 01 JB code lfab.17.07nit 06 10.1075/lfab.17.07nit 219 256 38 Chapter 10 01 04 On the extended projection of German adjectives On the extended projection of German adjectives 1 A01 01 JB code 640443925 Remo Nitschke Nitschke, Remo Remo Nitschke 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/640443925 01 eng 30 00 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. 01 01 JB code lfab.17.08mit 06 10.1075/lfab.17.08mit 257 292 36 Chapter 11 01 04 First-phase semantics First-phase semantics 1 A01 01 JB code 79443926 Moreno Mitrović Mitrović, Moreno Moreno Mitrović Leibniz Centre for General Linguistics (ZAS)/Berlin & Bled Institute 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/79443926 01 eng 30 00 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). 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