Positional predicates in early Germanic
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angličtina
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Positional predicates in early Germanic
Original language description
This chapter addresses a class of adjectival modifiers that has received relatively little attention in the literature. Those modifiers, referred to here as positional pred- icates, differ from “regular” adjectives semantically, syntactically, and, at least in Germanic, morpho-syntactically. Their most outstanding syntactic property is that they precede determiners (prenominally) and combine with pronouns and proper names. On the semantic side, they do not simply modify the noun description, but denote a part–whole relation with respect to the NP referent. Starting out from modern Icelandic, Latin and Greek, I will show that items displaying the same deviant behaviour can also be identified in the early Germanic languages to vary- ing degrees. The evidence across the Germanic languages, however, is not equally strong and we find variation, but the discussion suggests that the extant examples are remnants of a system (a class of modifiers/a special adjectival syntax) that must have been more widespread and productive in older stages of Germanic.
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C - Chapter in a specialist book
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OECD FORD branch
10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)
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Publication year
2024
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S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Book/collection name
Noun phrases in early Germanic languages
ISBN
978-3-96110-467-3
Number of pages of the result
35
Pages from-to
365-399
Number of pages of the book
633
Publisher name
Language Science Press
Place of publication
Berlin
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