... he distinguishes nouns from
adjectives and verbs in that only the latter are intrinsically relational [i.e. pred-
icative], whereas he distinguishes verbs from adjectives and nouns in that they
tend ... 219
4.5 Adjectives and adverbs 230
4.6 Are adjectives universal? 238
5Lexicalcategoriesandthenatureofthegrammar264
5.1 What has a category? 265
5.2 Categories and the architecture of the grammar ... and verbalization 159
3.9 Are nouns universal? 169
4Adjectivesasneithernounsnorverbs190
4.1 The essence of having no essence 190
4.2 Attributive modification 192
4.3 Adjectives and degree heads...
... majority of verbs, which can appear with a manner
adverb but do not have to. Nevertheless, the morphology and syntax of the
adverbs in (32) is no different from that of other manner adverbs; see, ... classifiers in, 119n.
Tzutujil
adjectives in, 144, 192
degree heads in, 218
derivation in, 161
linkers in, 193n.
Uesaka, Miwako, 74
unaccusative verbs, 63
compared to adjectives and nouns, 8, 13, 69,
72–74, ... thus
standard to say that these adverbs are still adjunct modifiers. I suggest that the
PP in (31a) should be thought of in exactly the same way: put and its synonyms
in English are verbs that require a...
... assume that
objects are designated by nouns, actions by verbs, and properties by adjectives.
They then jump tothe conclusion thatthereare a few nouns, verbs, and adjectives
in the language they are ... have verbs but not adjectives. Upon closer examination, the verbs
that correspond to adjectives in all of these languages have subtle grammatical
properties that distinguish them from true verbs. ... stative verbs on the surface in Vata, these verbs contain
roots that have special derivational possibilities that show them to be inherently adjectives. She
concludes that a class of adjectives...
... correspond
to adjectives in English being grouped either with the nouns or with the verbs
((86c,d)).
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(86) Transitory situations Permanent situations
a X— (verbs) —X———-(Adjs)————X— (nouns) —X (English)
b ... as six lexical cat-
egories, ranging from true verbs, to adjectival verbs, to verby adjectives, to
nouny adjectives, to adjectival nouns, to true nouns. ) Alternatively, some lan-
guages could ... two-category
system: a system that has verbs and “substantives,” the latter being usable as
either nouns or adjectives. )
248 Adjectives as neither nouns nor verbs
(100) M-kango ndi w-a u-kulu.
3-lion
PRED...
... nouns can only combine with other noun projections by way of nonsyntactic root
compounding, whereas adjectives can combine with nouns by syntactic merge.
214 Adjectives as neither nouns nor verbs
fixing ... forms as nouns in Greek,
Latin, and Sanskrit. For this reason, the distinction between nouns and adjectives was usually not
noticed before the Middle Ages.
202 Adjectives as neither nouns nor verbs
(17)
PredP
Pred´ ... is
ruled out by the theory.
4 Adjectives as neither nouns
nor verbs
4.1 The essence of having no essence
In chapter 2, I considered what distinguishes verbs from nouns and adjectives.
The difference,...
... predicate nouns resist verbalization in English
and many other languages, such verbalization is not completely impossible.
For example, the morpheme –ize in English derives verbs from adjectives ... inchoative verbs; and –wa, which forms
causative verbs. Heath observes that both of these morphemes attach produc-
tively to adjectives but not to nouns, as shown in (138c,d).
3.9 Are nouns universal? ... consequence is that Universal Grammar contains no fourth lexical
category that completes the space of logicalpossibilitiesdefinedbytheexistence
of nouns, verbs, and adjectives (Schachter [1985];...
... NPs. Prima facie, this
seems to be true: virtually every grammar has an index entry for pronouns, but
very few mention pro -adjectives or pro -verbs. It is also perfectly possible to
work on a language ... should
be no such thing as “pro -adjectives or “pro -verbs in languages of the world
that take part in anaphoric relationships with APs and VPs in the same way
that pronouns enter into anaphoric relationships ... or
adjectival.
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3.4 Nouns in binding and anaphora
My task now is to go on and show how nouns having a criterion of identity and
a referential index can explain differences between nouns and other...
... mass nouns co-occur with measure phrases, whereas comparable adjectives
and verbs do not. The paradigm in (i) illustrates within the mass domain the same fundamental
contrast between nouns and adjectives ... and section 4.5 below.
3 Nouns as bearers of a
referential index
3.1 What is special about nouns?
I turn now to consideration of what sets nouns apart from verbs and adjectives.
Using phrase ... that any
type of noun can be used in this frame, including singular count nouns, plural
nouns, mass nouns, and abstract nouns.
(14) a That is the same man as you saw yesterday.
b Those are the...
... well
adapted to causativizing adjectives and nouns,
but not verbs. Because the theta-role assigning properties of verbs are signif-
icantly different from those of nouns and adjectives, a single morpheme ... attach to nouns and adjectives in a given
language only if they also attach to verbs. This follows from the fact that verbs
are structurally closer to tense than predicative nouns and adjectives ... directly to nouns and
adjectives as well as to verbs in this language, whereas the others (continua-
tive, aorist, future, necessitive, and optative) need a verbal copula when they
co-occur with nouns...
... proposal is that verbs take subjects directly and nouns and adjectives do not,
as a universal definition of these categories. Thus, Pred is present with predicate
nouns and predicate adjectives in ... distinguishing verbs from other categories, and why it is more
promising than some of the obvious alternativ
es (section
2.2). Next I explore
(1)’s implication that predicate nouns and adjectives, unlike verbs, ... It also accounts for the fact that certain verbs behave like unac-
cusative predicates, in contrast to corresponding adjectives and nouns, which
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30 Verbs as licensers of subjects
beautifully...
... because there is a
very big exhibition there.
have
have to
had
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