(Non-)Intersective adjectives and root suppletion
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20344224 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Miloje Despić (Cornell University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 507-530 |
| Publication date | 2019-09-25 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Linguistic Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0167-6318 • E-ISSN: 1613-3676 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/tlr-2019-2027 |
| OpenAlex | W2958249470 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 16 |
In this paper I examine certain gradable adjectives in Serbian, whose suppletive comparative forms display unexpected semantic properties. In particular, while these adjectives are ambiguous between intersective and non-intersective readings in the positive form, their suppletive comparative and superlative forms are limited to the non-intersective interpretation. These facts show, I argue, that in a theory like Distributed Morphology either adjectival roots or category-assigning heads they combine with come in semantic subtypes (i.e. are specified for certain semantic properties; Harley 2005, Anagnostopoulou and Samioti 2014). I show how the analysis I propose explains semantic properties of change-of-state verbs derived from these adjectives and why these adjectives are restricted to the intersective interpretation when their positive form takes the long-form (definite) inflection. I also provide an illustration of how Arregi and Nevins’s (2014) analysis of the so-called “disuppletive” roots, such worse/badder , can deal with the facts presented in this paper. Finally, I discuss implications of these facts in the context of Bobaljik’s (2012) approach to suppletive comparative morphology
Adjective · Inflection · Linguistics · Noun · Semantic interpretation · Semantic property · Serbian · Superlative · Underspecification · Computer Science · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · History · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis · Mathematics · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
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Knowledge of Meaning
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The Logical Form of Action Sentences
Degree Operators and Scope
Suppletion
A monoradical approach to some cases of disuppletion
How Much Context Is Enough? Two Cases of Span-Conditioned Stem Allomorphy
Investigations on mixed agreement
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| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |