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Three puzzles about denominal adjectives in- EUX

Fradin, Bernard (2007) Three puzzles about denominal adjectives in- EUX. Acta Linguistica Hungarica, 54 (1). pp. 3-32. ISSN 1216-8076

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Abstract

French adjectives in- EUX (e.g., laiteux ‘milky’) usually have all the properties of true intersective adjectives. However, they sometimes behave like ordinary denominal adjectives e.g., presidential (no predication, no gradation, argument-saturating capacity). It is argued that this change is tied to the nature of the relationship between the base N ( lait in laiteux ) and the N which heads the NP the denominal adjective occurs in. Assuming that the denominal adjective’s semantics is equivalent to that of its base noun, three cases have to be distinguished. In the first one, the adjective functions as an argument of a predicate denoting an event and involving causal chaining, e.g., presidential trip . In the second one, the adjective is an argument of an event denoting predicate but the latter involves an internal causation instead of causal chaining, e.g., averse neigeuse ‘snowfall’. In the third, the relationship is based upon an internal link between the two nouns (e.g., pont dangereux ‘dangerous bridge’) and the A is intersective.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: P Language and Literature / nyelvészet és irodalom > P0 Philology. Linguistics / filológia, nyelvészet
Depositing User: xFruzsina xPataki
Date Deposited: 15 Jun 2017 20:13
Last Modified: 04 Apr 2023 12:53
URI: http://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/54951

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