Adjectives in Germanic and Romance

Sleeman, Petra; Velde, Freek Van de; Perridon, Harry

doi:10.1075/la.212

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Three Typological Differences Between the North and the West Germanic DPs

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2019

J Ger Ling

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This paper discusses three typological differences between the North Germanic DP and the West Germanic DP. While North Germanic has suffixal definite articles leading to cases of double definiteness, weak adjective endings regulated by definiteness, and doubly-filled definite DPs, West Germanic does not. These three properties cluster together in that they all have to do with definiteness. It is claimed that they can be subsumed under one more general difference. Assuming various subcomponents of definiteness, it is proposed that these components originate low in the structure. North Germanic arranges these components into several individual feature bundles. Some of these bundles move to D, while others remain lower in the structure. Consequently, definiteness components are spelled out separately in different positions. In contrast, West Germanic involves one complex feature bundle containing all definiteness components. In this language family, all of the components move to D as one bundle and, as a consequence, they are all spelled out as one determiner.

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Adjectivization of participles in Romance

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Niculescu

2015

Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory

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The well-known distinction between verbal participles and adjectival ones has been fine-grained in the last decades. Within the adjectival participles, Kratzer (1994) and Embick (2004), for German and English resp., distinguish between stative and resultative participles. Sleeman (2011) distinguishes two types of verbal participles in Germanic. She argues that the postnominal verbal participle in Dutch and English is fully eventive, while the prenominal one is not fully adjectival, as has been claimed by Embick (2004), but to a lesser extent eventive. In this paper it is claimed that Romance languages also display the four stages in the adjectivization process. It is argued that, not only in Germanic, but also in Romance, the less fully eventive verbal participle does exist, on the basis of an analysis of the French passive participle in combination with the adverb très "very" and the Romanian present participle in modifier position preceded by cel.

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Adjectives in Germanic and Romance

Cited by 7 publications

References 21 publications

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Publications received in 2014

Three Typological Differences Between the North and the West Germanic DPs

Adjectivization of participles in Romance

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