The Structure of Adjective Modifications in English and French

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  • 英仏の形容詞修飾構造
  • エイフツ ノ ケイヨウシ シュウショク コウゾウ

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n this paper, we analyze a syntactic structure of attributive adjectives (épithète) in French by the previous study, Cinque (2010). Cinque (2010) analyzed the phenomena of adjectival modifications in Italian (Romance) with the universal structure via NP-movement and snowballing-movement. We hypothesize that adnominal adjectives in French are direct modification in a hierarchical order including quantity, quality, and size, and postnominal adjectives in French are indirect modification including quality, size, shape, color, and nationality. Moreover, we propose that quality and size are lower than shape, color and nationality in a reduced relative clause. We can analyze the structure of French adjectival modifications without optional NP-movement in direct modification AP and snowballing-movement. Finally, we propose that quality and size must be either in a reduced relative clause from some syntactic phenomena.

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  • Asphodel

    Asphodel 55 151-169, 2020-07-27

    京都

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