Patterns of adjectival modification and intensity readings on compounding in brazilian portuguese, english and hebrew
This paper compares adjectival modification structures in Brazilian Portuguese, English, and Hebrew, to identify their properties of interpretation and syntactic variation for these three languages. The hypothesis is that structures of the type (gerund)/A/Adv+de+A/N allow for an intensity reading, e...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2021 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) |
| Repositorio: | Cadernos de Estudos Linguísticos |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br:article/8661677 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/cel/article/view/8661677 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Composição Adjetivos Português Brasileiro Inglês Hebraico Composición Adjetivos deverbais Portugués Brasileño Inglés Hebreo Compounding Adjectives Brazilian Portuguese English Hebrew |
| Sumario: | This paper compares adjectival modification structures in Brazilian Portuguese, English, and Hebrew, to identify their properties of interpretation and syntactic variation for these three languages. The hypothesis is that structures of the type (gerund)/A/Adv+de+A/N allow for an intensity reading, expressed by the element preceding the preposition by consequence of the categorization of a prepositional structure that selects two roots. The variation among the three languages occurs from the (non-)categorization of the root in the complement position, and from the adjunction of such root to the specifier position, yielding an order inversion with a rightward head, just like English N+N compounds. The empirical evidence for the proposal is based on the behaviors of modifiers, intervention of other modifying elements between adjectival items and the cases of semantic intensity readings. |
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