Adjectival Modification and Order Restrictions: The Influence of Temporariness on Prenominal Word Order

Sven Kotowski

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Adjectival Modification and Order Restrictions

The Influence of Temporariness on Prenominal Word Order

Sven Kotowski

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2016

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Volume 80 | Studia grammatica

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This monographs investigates into the influence of the individual-/stage-level distinction (IL/SL) on order restrictions of multiple prenominal adjectives (AORs). It rejects the restriction regularly postulated—across different research frameworks—that SL-adjectives are being realized farther from the head noun than IL-adjectives, relegating the alleged constraint to an epiphenomenon of more general principles. While formal-theoretic hypotheses on AORs are formulated and put to the test empirically via a large corpus as well as two rating studies, the book also addresses adjective classification, modification patterns, and the IL-SL-debate in general. The preferred prenominal positions of typical SL-adjectives are argued to follow from their nature as absolute-gradable adjectives as well as from the distinction between object- and kind-modification. The empirical studies corroborate these considerations. The book critically discusses and opposes several well-established hypotheses on AORs, sketches a flexible and parsimonious syntax of adjectival modification, and will be of interest to syntacticians and semanticists working on DP-structure, the IL-SL-debate, and adjectival modification

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Sven Kotowski, University of Düsseldorf, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Table of contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	vii
List of Tables Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	viii
List of Figures Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	ix
Abbreviations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	x
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
1. The word class ‘adjective’ Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	10
2. Individual-level, stage-level, and temporariness Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	68
3. Adjective order restrictions, adjective classes, and property concepts in DP Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	111
4. Layered adjective order and genericity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	189
Conclusions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	230
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	234
Appendices Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	247
Subject index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	261

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September 12, 2016

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9783110478457

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September 12, 2016

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10

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263

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13

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110478457

eBook ISBN: 9783110478457

Hardcover ISBN: 9783110476385

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Syntax; Word Order; Object modification

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Linguists in the areas of syntax, (formal) semantics, corpus lingustics and psycholinguistics

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