Worked examples or Exercises; 5 Tables, black and white
Publishing Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Publication Date
17 September 2020
Publication Country
United Kingdom
Description
In both Romance and English literature, relational adjectives have received special attention due to their apparently idiosyncratic behaviour, as both nouns and adjectives at the same time. Stepping away from the usual analyses that concentrates generally on their noun-like properties, this pioneer work explains their peculiar behaviour that has so far represented a challenge for current morphological theories. Mihaela Marchis Moreno takes an empirical approach to their distribution, and the syntactic and semantic conditions that govern their use. Drawing upon key findings from previous literature she proposes a new model of how relational adjectives work both cross-linguistically, and across the various interfaces of language.
Author Biography
Mihaela Marchis Moreno is a linguist and writer whose main research focusses on comparative syntax, morpho-syntax and semantics-syntax interfaces.
