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Adjectives in Germanic and Romance
Although the Germanic and Romance languages are two branches of the same language family and although both have developed the adjective as a separate syntactic and morphological category, the syntax, morphology, and interpretation of adjectives is by no means the same in these two language groups, and there is even variation within each of the language groups. One of the main aims of this volume is to map the differences and similarities in syntactic behavior, morphology, and meaning of the Germanic and Romance adjective and to find an answer to the following question: Are the (dis)similarities the result of autonomous developments in each of the two branches of the Indo-European language family, or are they caused by language contact?
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 212] 2014. vii, 286 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 30 January 2014
Published online on 30 January 2014
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
- Foreword | pp. vii–viii
- The adjective in Germanic and Romance: Development, differences and similaritiesFreek Van de Velde, Petra Sleeman and Harry Perridon | pp. 1–32
- Part I: Change
- The adjective-adverb interface in Romance and EnglishMartin Hummel | pp. 35–72
- The position proper of the adjective in Middle English: A result of language contactCarola Trips | pp. 73–94
- Strong and weak adjectives in Old SwedishUlla Stroh-Wollin and Rico Simke | pp. 95–112
- The resilient nature of adjectival inflection in DutchFreek Van de Velde and Fred Weerman | pp. 113–146
- Part II: Variation
- On the properties of attributive phrases in Germanic (and beyond)Volker Struckmeier and Joost Kremers | pp. 149–170
- From participle to adjective in Germanic and RomancePetra Sleeman | pp. 171–198
- The mixed categorial behavior of cel + participle in RomanianDana Niculescu | pp. 199–216
- Inside and outside – Before and after: Weak and strong adjectives in IcelandicAlexander Pfaff | pp. 217–244
- Adjectives in German and Norwegian: Differences in weak and strong inflectionsDorian Roehrs and Marit Julien | pp. 245–262
- Cross-linguistic variation in agreement on Germanic predicate adjectivesErik Schoorlemmer | pp. 263–278
- Author Index | pp. 279–282
- Subject Index | pp. 283–286
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