1. The encoding of adjectives.
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Verkerk, Annemarie and Lestrade, Sander
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PHONOLOGICAL encoding , *ADJECTIVALS (Grammar) , *VERB phrases , *OPTIMALITY theory (Linguistics) , *VARIATION in language , *LEXICAL-functional grammar , *DISCOURSE analysis , *COMPARATIVE semantics , *ROOTS (English language) - Abstract
The article presents a study on the unified account of the cross-linguistic variation in the encoding of adjectives in prediative and attributive constructions using a unified optimality theoretic account. Accordingly, languages might be dissimilar in the encoding strategy of adjectives in the predicative domain, and there are instances that the strategy could be changed in the attributive domain. The interaction on faithfulness to the semantic class of a lexical root, and the faithfulness to discourse functions is also discussed in details.
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- 2008
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