The Syntax of Deverbal Compound Adjectives in English

Table Of Contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• About the author
• About the book
• This eBook can be cited
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Word Formation And Argument Structure In Distributed Morphology – A Theoretical Background
• 1.1 Introduction
• 1.2 Word formation in the lexicalist theory
• 1.3 Distributed Morphology
• 1.4 Word formation in Distributed Morphology
• 1.4.1 Roots in Distributed Morphology
• 1.4.2 How are affixes attached to roots?
• 1.4.3 Root categorization
• 1.5 The verbal domain in Distributed Morphology
• 1.6 The VoiceP head
• 1.6.1 Kratzer’s (1996) proposal
• 1.6.2 Functions of Voice: agent, causer and instrument external arguments
• 1.6.3 Detecting the external argument
• 1.6.3.1 By-phrases
• 1.6.3.2 Instrumental phrases
• 1.6.3.3 Agent-oriented adverbials and control into purpose clauses
• 1.7 Compounding: a brief introduction
• 1.7.1 Compound - the definition
• 1.7.2 Synthetic (verbal) compounding
• 1.7.2.1 Synthetic (verbal) compound – the definition
• 1.7.2.2 Lexicalist vs. syntactic approaches to synthetic compounding
• 1.7.2.3 Competing DM approaches: Harley (2009) and Alexiadou (2017)
• 1.8 Relevance of this study
• Chapter 2: The Syntax Of Synthetic -En Compounds
• 2.1 Introduction
• 2.2 Adjectival vs. verbal participles
• 2.3 Adjectival passives and argument structure – an overview of the leading approaches
• 2.3.1 Adjectival passives as target and resultant states
• 2.3.2 Anagnostopoulou (2003): two types of Greek participles
• 2.3.3 Embick (2003, 2004): stative, resultative and eventive participles
• 2.3.4 Meltzer-Asscher (2011): two types of adjectival passives in Hebrew
• 2.3.5 Sleeman (2011): eventive adjectival passives
• 2.3.6 Bruening (2014) and Alexiadou et al. (2014): adjectival passives license the external argument
• 2.3.7 Adjectival passives are semantically predictable
• 2.4 The internal semantics of synthetic -en compounds
• 2.5 The external syntax of synthetic -en compounds
• 2.5.1 Synthetic -en compounds as verbal passives
• 2.5.2 Synthetic -en compounds and the external argument
• 2.5.3 Synthetic -en compounds as adjectives: the syntactic stativity of synthetic -en compounds
• 2.5.3.1 The prenominal position
• 2.5.3.2 Copular verbs
• 2.5.3.3 Non-prefixation
• 2.5.3.4 Co-occurrence and coordination with other adjectives
• 2.5.3.5 Scale structure
• 2.5.3.6 -ness suffixation
• 2.5.4 Interim summary
• 2.5.5 Synthetic -en compounds as target and resultant states
• 2.6 The internal structure of synthetic -en compounds
• 2.7 Idiosyncratic synthetic -en compounds
• 2.7.1 Experiencer synthetic -en compounds
• 2.7.2 Eventive -en compounds as stative constructions
• 2.8 Synthetic -en compounds with adverbs as modifiers
• 2.9 Synthetic -en compounds with the pronoun self
• 2.10 Conclusion
• Chapter 3: The Syntax Of Synthetic -Ing Compounds
• 3.1 Introduction
• 3.2 Active participles and -ing adjectives
• 3.3 The semantics of synthetic -ing compounds
• 3.4 The syntax of synthetic -ing compounds
• 3.4.1 Position in the sentence
• 3.4.2 Eventive -ing compounds and the external argument
• 3.4.3 Stative -ing compounds and argument structure
• 3.5 Eventive -ing compounds as nominals
• 3.5.1 Grimshaw (1990) and Borer (2012) – result and event nominals
• 3.5.2 Nominal -ing compounds and argument structure - an overview of leading approaches
• 3.5.3 The Corpus-based analysis of nominal –ing compounds
• 3.6 Eventive -ing compounds vs. active participles
• 3.7 Variation in semantics
• 3.7.1 Risk-taking, rule-breaking, cost-saving and English-speaking as semantically ambiguous compounds
• 3.7.2 Stative -ing compounds containing verbalizing morphology: the case of life- threatening
• 3.7.3 -ing compounds referring to prior events
• 3.8 Polish -ny/-czy compounds as equivalents of stative -ing compounds
• 3.9 Synthetic -ing compounds based on intransitive verbs
• 3.10 Synthetic -ing compounds based on experiencer verbs
• 3.11 Conclusion
• Concluding Remarks
• References
• Index