In:Morphologically Derived Adjectives in Spanish
Antonio Fábregas
[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 30] 2020
► pp. 27–62
Chapter 2The problem with (complex) adjectives
Published online: 20 November 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.30.c2
https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.30.c2
Article outline
- 1.Lexical categories: Essentialist and distributionalist theories
- 2.The heterogeneity of the adjectival class
- 3.Against the essentialist definition of adjectives
- 3.1Non-universality
- 3.2Absence of positive properties and derived character
- 3.3Adjectives do not form a natural class in Spanish
- 4.Consequences for morphological analysis
- 5.Head recycling and adjective formation
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