The deep structure of adjectives in noun phrases
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5851674 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Roland Sussex (0000-0002-8051-6861, University of Reading, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1974 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 111-131 |
| Publication date | 1974-03-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-2267 • E-ISSN: 1469-7742 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0022226700004035 |
| OpenAlex | W1990658567 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 20 |
The syntax of adjectives is perhaps one of the less controversial issues in contemporary transformational generative grammar. Predicative adjectives are held to underly attributives (Harris, 1952; Chomsky, 1957: 72; Lees, 1960a), and are further embedded from underlying relative clauses (Smith, 1961, 1964; Lees, 1960b; Katz & Postal, 1964). This position has not apparently been seriously affected by several attacks on the primacy of predicative adjectives (Winter, 1965; Bolinger, 1967; Motsch, 1967) and on the relative clause source of restrictives (Annear, 1969); and it has if anything been strengthened by attempts to prove that adjectives are derived from deeper underlying classes (Lakoff, 1966, 1970: Appendix A; Bowers, 1968; Ross, 1969; Givón, 1970; and see Sussex, 1971: Ch. 2). The aim of the present paper is to present several objections to the analysis deriving attributive adjectives from predicative adjectives in relative clauses, on the basis of the formal and semantic characteristics of prenominal attributive adjectives like: (1) fine white Georgian house and to investigate some of the theoretical questions raised by these objections
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| Citations per year | 0.1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1976 - 2021 (46) |
| Highly cited | No |