Article published In: Lingvisticæ Investigationes
Vol. 38:1 (2015) ► pp.111–132
Les prédicats Prep N figés adjectivaux et adverbiaux
Article language: French
Published online: 18 September 2015
https://doi.org/10.1075/li.38.1.04kal
https://doi.org/10.1075/li.38.1.04kal
The purpose of this article is to consider syntactic and semantic properties of frozen predicates Prep N in Polish, which may express either a state or a property of the subject. Some of them correspond to adjectival interrogative pronouns, while others correspond rather to an adverbial interrogation. We discuss to what extent these and other syntactic features reflect the notional features, defined as a property or as a state and if they justify the division between the adjectival Prep N and the adverbial Prep N. Our analysis is based on Polish data but it also contains references to other languages: French, Korean, English. More general issues are also discussed in this paper: identification of the categories called parts of speech and transfer between categories (noun vs. adjective vs. adverbe).
Keywords: adjectival, property, state, modification, adverbial, prepositional phrase
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