The Adjective as an Adjunctive Predicative Expression : A Semantic Analysis of Nominalised Propositional Structures as Secondary Predicative Syntagmas
Dorota. Szumska
Bok Engelsk 2013 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Frankfurt : : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, , 2013.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (238 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Table of Contents; Chapter I Introduction: the concept of the description of the adjective as a predicative expression; I.1. The research paradigm: basic assumptions and the conceptual and terminological resources for a predicate-argument syntax model; I.2. The aim of the description; I.3. Reasons for the choice of subject; I.4. The adjective: theoretical preliminaries; I.4.1. "Adjectivity": dilemmas and resolutions; I.4.2. Surface-syntactic characteristics of adjectives: controversial and uncontroversial points. - I.4.3. Hierarchisation of the adjective's syntagmatic positions:a contribution to the discussion I. 4.4. Role of morphological and surface-syntactic criteriain the determination of the range of the adjectival lexeme class; I.5. Empirical data; I.5.1. Semantic and syntactic constraints on the object described; 1.6. Methodological investigation; I.6.1. Limited effectiveness of the surface analysis of organisation at the content level; I.6.2. The place of introspection in semantic studies; I.6.3. Methods applied; Chapter II The adjective as a predicative expression. - II. 1. Categorical differentiation of the system of lexical exponents of the predicateII. 2. Formal representation types of predication: the predicating vs. sentence-building predication; II.3. The adnominal position and the attributive position of the adjectival predicative expression (AdjPE) as communicatively relevant ways of differentiating the structuralisation of propositional contents; II.4. The syntagmatic position of evaluative and parametric adjectives and the interpretive paradigm of PASes achieved through them; II.5. The conceptual structure of evaluative and parametric adjectives. - II.6. Adjectival transpositional derivatives (AdjTD)II.6.1. Denominal adjectives as AdjTD; II.6.2. Transposability of material adjectives; II.6.3. Possessive adjectives and their homonymic AdjTDs; II.6.4. Communicative tasks of the syntactic derivation of adjectives; II. 6.5. Non-predicativeness of AdjTDs; II.7. Conclusions; Chapter III The noun phrase with an adjective as a means to formalise propositional contents; III. 1. Scope over which surface propositional contents are manifested; III.1.1. The concept of textual undercoding and overcoding. - III.1.2. Types of textual undercoding and overcoding III.1.3 Types of surface reduction operations: compression and condensation; III. 1.4. Pleonasmicity as sender's redundancy: the absolute pleonasm and the relative pleonasm; III.2. Pleonastic noun phrases with an adjective and theirquasi-pleonastic counterparts; III. 3. Polyadjectivity in monopropositional noun phrases: the result of explicative-disintegrative PAS formalisatio n; III.3.1. Specifics of the formalisation of propositional contents basedon predicates represented by "relational" ("relative") adjectives. - III.3.2. The Principle of Presumed Absorption. - The analysis is a contribution to contemporary linguistics, particularly the theory of syntax, semantics and pragmatics. Within the theoretical framework of predicate-argument syntax (also known as semantic syntax), the author analyses the role of the adjective as an adjunctive predicative expression. The aim of the research is to create a description of an adjective which could be prospectively useful as a point of departure for analyses of phenomena analogous from the communication point of view in other languages. The book contains a rich text material and a large number of valuable pragmat
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| ISBN | 3-631-62400-X
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