Deverbal adjectives at the interface : a crosslinguistic investigation into the morphology, syntax and semantics of -ble
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Deverbal adjectives at the interface : a crosslinguistic investigation into the morphology, syntax and semantics of -ble
（Interface explorations / Artemis Alexiadou, T. Alan Hall, editors, 28）
De Gruyter Mouton, c2013
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-338) and indexes
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This volume explores the syntax, semantics, and morphology of -ble adjectives within Distributed Morphology. It presents a decompositional analysis of -ble that captures intralinguistic variation and accounts for morphologically more complex languages. It contributes novel empirical data. First, the grammaticality of -ble formations derived from unergatives and unaccusatives in Spanish is argued to be a function of their exoskeletal properties in interaction with language-specific facts and features of the grammar of cognation, degrees, quantification and Aktionsart. A previously unnoticed correlation between the Spanish data and a cognate configuration with unaccusatives in English reinforces the proposal. Second, the grammaticality of denominal -ble adjectives in Romance and their absence in English relates aspects of the internal structure of -ble to issues pertaining to the eventive properties and syntactico-semantic status of the base nouns. This crosslinguistic proposal implicates central issues in the syntax-semantics-morphology interface, e.g. cross category derivations, locus of variation, or status of impossible words.
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