Chapter 4
Qualifying denominal adjectives I
Possessive and similitudinal adjectives
Article outline
- 1.Overview of the analysis of qualifying denominal adjectives
- 1.1On the criteria to determine whether an adjective is qualifying
- 2.Possessive adjectives: Empirical properties
- 2.1What conceptual notions are expressed as possession?
- 2.2Conceptual classes of roots in the base and inalienable possession
- 2.3Possessive adjectives and other classes of denominal adjectives
- 2.4The readings of degree modifiers
- 2.5On the existence of privative adjectives
- 2.6On the relation between participles and possessive adjectives
- 3.Analysis of possessive adjectives
- 3.1Possessive adjectives and possessive structures
- 3.2The relation with the participle
- 3.3Underspecification: How it is solved
- 3.4Degree readings
- 4.Similitudinal adjectives: Empirical properties
- 4.1Conceptual properties
- 4.2Structural properties: Incapacity to combine with negative prefixes
- 5.Analysis of similitudinal adjectives
- 5.1SimP as a vagueness function.
- 5.2Similitudinal adjectives as vague predicates
- 5.3The absence of negative similitudinal adjectives
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