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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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