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Resumen: Una gramática pedagógica ha de recoger los conocimientos gramaticales relevantes para la educación lingüística y ha de mostrar cómo estos conocimientos permiten reflexionar sobre la lengua y utilizarla de forma más consciente en... more
Starting with the question of the variable adjective order in French this paper proposes a theorized description of categories and functions in nominal syntagm, in a structuralist, functionalist, operationalist and corpus-based framework.
David Serrano-Dolader (Universidad de Zaragoza) “Sobre los adjetivos ¿parasintéticos? locativos (submarino, intramuscular, interdigital)” Nuestro estudio parte de dos premisas fundamentales: 1). La parasíntesis es un... more
Sözcük türleri, Türk dilinde tartışmalı konulardan biridir. Günümüze kadar pek çok bilim adamı bu konu üzerinde durmuş ve farklı düşünceler ortaya koymuştur. Bu düşüncelerin bazıları Türkçenin doğal yapısı dikkate alınmadan İngilizce,... more
Grammar is one of the fundamental subjects of study in the vast field of Persian language and literature and the study of its elements provides a good basis for research. “Adjective” is one of the parts of speech in Persian grammar and... more
In comparison to other word classes such as nouns and verbs, Amharic possesses a minimal set of inherent adjectives. As a result, Amharic uses a set of derivational suffixes which includes am, amma to derive words mainly from nouns. The... more
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In this paper I argue that, in addition to Cinque’s (2010) direct and indirect modification, there is also a third type of adjective modification, analyzed higher, at the left periphery of DP. A closed set of Serbo-Croatian (S-C)... more
Abstract—Zero derivation is a word formation process when the lexemes before and after the process, most often, when talking about clear or genuine types of zero-derivation, share the same form, display similar, expanded meaning, but... more
Prior studies have examined the association between modifying adjective placement and interpretation in second language (L2) Spanish. These studies show evidence of convergence with native speaker’s intuitions, which is interpreted as... more
The subject of this paper are adjectival synthetic compounds in which the second element (head) selects the first constituent grammatically and semantically. The first constituent is anchored in the argument structure of the adjectival... more
(Belgian Journal of Linguistics 12/2010; DOI:10.1075/bjl.25.06sas) Classification of entities into categories can be determined based on a rule – a single criterion or relatively few criteria combined with logical operations like ‘and’ or... more
Modifiers are elements used to modify the meaning of the head of their phrase. They are optional in that they may be removed without changing the syntactic structure of the sentence in which they occur. In AGk, adjectives are typically... more
The adjective is a beleaguered category in biblical Hebrew grammar with many grammars of biblical Hebrew denying that the adjective is a category distinct from substantives. Within a variety of linguistic theories, the status of the... more
The interpretation of negated antonyms is characterised by a polarity asymmetry: the negation of a positive polarity antonym (X is not interesting) is more likely to be strengthened to convey its opposite (‘X is uninteresting’) than the... more
(Natural Language Semantics 06/2010; 18(2):141-181. DOI:10.1007/s11050-009-9052-8 · 0.92 Impact Factor) This paper provides a new account of positive versus negative antonyms. The data includes well known linguistic generalizations... more
В данной статье обсуждается класс некоторых возникших недавно в чешском, словацком, словенском и серпскохорватском языках несклоняемых элементов в функции приименного модификатора. Эти элементы омонимичны с названиями фирм и марок (т.е. с... more
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This paper presents a new approach to morphological gradability, which extends existing ones to cover manifestations of gradability in nouns and multidimensional adjectives. The approach correlates between the type of categorization... more
Compounds of nouns and attributive adjectives have received considerable attention in various studies, with two principal issues engaging the attention of researchers. The first is the nature of the modification relation between the... more
Classification of entities into categories can be determined based on a rule – a single criterion or relatively few criteria combined with logical operations like ‘and’ or ‘or’. Alternatively, classification can be based on similarity to... more
In comparison to other word classes such as nouns and verbs, Amharic possesses a minimal set of inherent adjectives. As a result, Amharic uses a set of derivational suffixes which includes am, amma to derive words mainly from nouns. The... more
Linguistic deconstruction is less widely considered in Persian language grammar, both in terms of structure and in terms of application. Construction patterns and grammatical rules of language are commonly repetitive and static in grammar... more
Cognition is a basis of cognitive linguistics and a driving force in the noun to adjective zero-derivation. By expanding the meaning of the first lexeme, cognition enables the speaker to derive a new lexeme, and empowers the hearer to... more
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A pedagogical grammar needs to include the relevant grammatical knowledge for linguistic education, and it needs to show how this knowledge allow us to reflect upon the language being learned and use it more consciously in different... more
Croatian constructions as Konzum nagradna igra or omega 3 masne kiseline pose a problem for traditional grammatical description, since they contain an inflected adjective between two nouns in what looks like a compound. Two analyses from... more
The collocation of French adjectives in the determiner phrase has long been both controversial and misconstrued within the literature (Benzitoun, 2014; Grevisse & Goosse, 2011). Though adjectives directly following nouns are considered... more