DEVERBAL ADJECTIVALIZATION AS A GRADUAL PROCESS

In this paper, we defend the idea that, in languages such as English, German and Dutch, there are in principle three types of (de)verbal modifiers of the noun: the first, postnominal, type is a reduced relative clause, that is, a full verbal projection with an operator-like subject. Prenominal (de)v...

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Published inActa linguistica Hungarica Vol. 47; no. 1/4; pp. 315 - 333
Main Authors SLEEMAN, PETRA, VERHEUGD, ELS
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Akadémiai Kiadó 01.01.2000
Subjects
Adjectivals
Adjectives
Argument Structure
Dutch
English
Event Semantics
Form Classes
German
Grammaticalization
Infinitives
Lexical modifiers
Linguistic inflection
Morphological Analysis
Morphology Syntax Relationship
Nominalization
Nouns
Syntactics
Verbs
Word Formation
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ISSN1216-8076
1588-2624

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Summary:In this paper, we defend the idea that, in languages such as English, German and Dutch, there are in principle three types of (de)verbal modifiers of the noun: the first, postnominal, type is a reduced relative clause, that is, a full verbal projection with an operator-like subject. Prenominal (de)verbal modifiers with an eventive meaning represent the second type. We claim that they are poorly inflected verbs with a reduced argument structure. The third type is the participle lexicalized as an adjective, which denotes a pure property and has completely lost the argument structure of the verbal base.
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ISSN:1216-8076
1588-2624