| Adjectival Modification and Order Restrictions: The Influence of Temporariness on Prenominal Word Order Contributor(s): Kotowski, Sven (Author) |
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ISBN: 311047638X ISBN-13: 9783110476385 Publisher: de Gruyter OUR PRICE: $169.09 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - General - Foreign Language Study | German |
| Dewey: 410 |
| Series: Studia Grammatica |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.3" W x 9.2" (1.70 lbs) 273 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 |
Contributor Bio(s): Kotowski, Sven: - Sven Kotowski, University of Düsseldorf, Germany. |