Relational adjectives in English and Japanese and the RA vs. PP debate

• Κύριοι συγγραφείς: Nagano, Akiko, Shimada, Masaharu
• Μορφή: Online
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Mediterranean Morphology Meetings (MMM) 2015
• Θέματα: 0; computational morphology; paradigms; inflection; derivation; Levenshtein distance; morphological processing; stem frequency; Italian; masked priming; compound formation; morphological productivity; productivity measures; corpus-based statistical methods; suspended affixation; Lexical Integrity Hypothesis; derivational suffixes; coordination; roots; Hebrew; Spanish; cross-linguistic; motion events; typological change; Latin linguistics; sytem; usage; compounding; Italian; overabundance; number inflection; reciprocals; reflexives; templates; Hebrew; collective and distributive; root; features; morphology; periphrasis

Akiko Nagano and Masaharu Shimada’s paper (Relational Adjectives (RA) in English and Japanese and the RA vs. PP debate) proposes that the distribution of so-called relational adjectives can be fruitfully captured by analyzing them as word-forms for direct modification. This type of adjectives is pre...