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In:Adjective Adverb Interfaces in Romance
Edited by Martin Hummel and Salvador Valera
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 242] 2017
► pp. 141–170

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Chapter 5
Are intrapredicative adjectives adverbs?

 | Université Libre de Bruxelles, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, LaDisco, Gramm-R
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Published online: 21 December 2017
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Abstract
Traditionally, the adjective/adverb opposition is part of a larger structural framework, where these parts of speech are differentiated by the type of parts of speech with which they have a relationship of dependency. The adjective is said to be related to the noun, and the adverb to the adjective, the verb or another adverb, and each time in relationships systematically described as T1 ← T2, where T2 is related to T1.
In this paper we investigate in French the case of intrapredicative adjectives, i.e. adjectives within the predicate which, counter to prevailing assumptions, appear to be related to the verb. We will try to shape a coherent functional system within which all the different uses of intrapredicative adjectives take place.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Is there such a thing as adverbialized adjective?
  • 3.Towards a genetic syntactic system: Incidence, determination and predication
  • 4.Description of items
    • 4.1Determiner of the verb (= determiner of the core of the DVPh)
    • 4.2Determiner of the relation [Dét (or Dét Ø) → CoreDVPh], not included in verbal valency
    • 4.3The secondary predicates
      • 4.3.1Secondary predicate of the core inside a PPh2 determiner of the verb
      • 4.3.2Secondary predicate of the core Ø, inside a PPh2 determiner of the relation [Dét → Core DVPh]
        • 4.3.2.1Pierre mange son steak saignant (‘Pierre eats his steak rare’)
        • 4.3.2.2Pierre a rendu sa voiture cabossée (‘Pierre returned his car dented: non processual meaning’)
        • 4.3.2.3Pierre vote utile
        • 4.3.2.4Pierre la coupe net
        • 4.3.2.5Il fait beau
        • 4.3.2.6Pierre mourra vieux
      • 4.3.3Secondary predicate of the determiner expected by the verb, not included in the verbal valency
      • 4.3.4Secondary predicate of the determiner expected by the verb, included in the verbal valency
      • 4.3.5Secondary predicate of the core inside a PPh2 determiner expected by the verb, included in the verbal valency
      • 4.3.6Secondary predicate of the core expected by the verb, included in verbal valency
  • 5.Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Key to abbreviations
  • References
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