The Syntax of Adjectives
A Comparative Study
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220 pages
- Release Date
30 July 2010
Summary
A new analysis of adjectives, supported by comparative evidence.In The Syntax of Adjectives, Guglielmo Cinque offers cross-linguistic evidence that adjectives have two sources. Arguing against the standard view, and reconsidering his own earlier analysis, Cinque proposes that adjectives enter the nominal phase either as “adverbial” modifiers to the noun or as predicates of reduced relative clauses. Some of his evidence comes from a systematic comparison between Romance and Germanic languages.…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262514262 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262514265 |
| Author: | Guglielmo Cinque |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 220 |
| Release Date: | 30 July 2010 |
| Weight: | 318g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 10mm |
| Series: | Linguistic Inquiry Monographs |
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About The Author
Guglielmo Cinque
Guglielmo Cinque is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Venice, where he is Director of the PhD Program in Linguistics. He is the author of Types of A-Dependencies (MIT Press, 1990) and other books.
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