Morphologically derived adjectives in Spanish

Morphologically derived adjectives in Spanish / Antonio Fábregas, UiT The Arctic University of Norway.

"This is the first book that presents a complete empirical description and theoretical analysis of all major classes of derived adjectives in Spanish, both deverbal and denominal. The reader will find here both a detailed empirical description of the syntactic, morphological and semantic proper...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fábregas, Antonio (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2020]
Series:Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone linguistics ; v. 30.
Subjects:
Spanish language > Adjective.
Spanish language > Morphology.
Spanish language > Adjective
Spanish language > Morphology
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Morphologically Derived Adjectives in Spanish
  • Editorial page
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Table of contents
  • Abbreviations
  • Chapter 1. Introduction
  • 1. Goals and overview
  • 1.1 The empirical base
  • 1.2 Overview of the main theoretical argument in the book
  • 2. Nanosyntax: The spell-out procedure
  • 2.1 Phrasal Spell Out
  • 2.2 The Exhaustive Lexicalisation Principle
  • 2.3 The Superset Principle
  • 3. Assumptions about prepositional structures and the projections they introduce
  • 3.1 Prepositional structures
  • 3.2 Assumptions about case
  • 4. The chapters
  • Chapter 2. The problem with (complex) adjectives
  • 1. Lexical categories: Essentialist and distributionalist theories
  • 2. The heterogeneity of the adjectival class
  • 3. Against the essentialist definition of adjectives
  • 3.1 Non-universality
  • 3.2 Absence of positive properties and derived character
  • 3.3 Adjectives do not form a natural class in Spanish
  • 4. Consequences for morphological analysis
  • 5. Head recycling and adjective formation
  • Chapter 3. Denominal relational adjectives
  • 1. Sketch of the analysis
  • 2. Empirical properties of relational adjectives
  • A. Adjacency to the modified noun
  • B. Non-availability of the prenominal position
  • C. Combination of two relational adjectives in the singular with one noun in the plural
  • D. There must be a lexical difference between affixes for relational adjectives and those for qualifying adjectives
  • E. However, it is frequent that the same affix produces both qualifying and relational adjectives
  • F. And at least there are two affixes that only produce relational adjectives
  • G. Relational adjectives express underspecified relations between two types of entity
  • H. Not being anchored to a dimension, relational adjectives reject degree modification
  • I. Relational adjectives also lack polar oppositions
  • J. Relational adjectives express relations between kinds of entities
  • K. Relational adjectives produce bracketing paradoxes
  • 3. Analysis: Relational adjectives as incomplete prepositional phrases
  • 3.1 The internal syntactic structure of relational adjectives
  • 3.2 The spell out of the structure: Phrasal Spell Out and the Superset
  • 4. Previous analyses of the internal structure of relational adjectives
  • 5. The external syntax of relational adjectives
  • 5.1 Deriving the syntactic position of relational adjectives
  • 5.2 Bracketing paradoxes
  • 5.3 What licenses 'Singular + Singular = Plural'?
  • Appendix. Do relational adjectives really have double affixal marking?
  • Chapter 4. Qualifying denominal adjectives I: Possessive and similitudinal adjectives
  • 1. Overview of the analysis of qualifying denominal adjectives
  • 1.1 On the criteria to determine whether an adjective is qualifying
  • 2. Possessive adjectives: Empirical properties
  • 2.1 What conceptual notions are expressed as possession?

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