Associative adjectives in English and the lexicon–syntax interface
Associative adjectives in English and the lexicon–syntax interface
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英语中的联想形容词和词典-语法界面
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发表时间:
2005
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1.1
通讯作者:
H. Giegerich
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作者:
H. Giegerich
This article argues that of English adjective–noun constructions involving associative adjectives (‘associative AdjNs’), some originate in the lexicon and others in the syntax. While in many cases such constructions are unambiguously and for identifiable reasons located on one side or the other of the lexicon–syntax ‘divide’, variation being possible only across speakers, a range of associative AdjNs is identified which must be simultaneously, and for the same speakers, of both lexical and syntactic provenance. There is therefore no lexicon–syntax ‘divide’: the two modules overlap.