Chapter 7
Qualifying deverbal adjectives I
Modal adjectives
Article outline
- 1.Overview of the analysis for qualifying deverbal adjectives
- 2.Against a syntactic decomposition of the three classes of qualifying deverbal
adjectives
- 2.1The readings can be ordered by their semantic complexity
- 2.2However, the syntactic complexity does not increase
- 3.Modal adjectives: Empirical description
- 3.1Internal arguments and accusative case
- 3.2Passive and active interpretations: Modal adjectives must be passive
- 3.3Argument structure
- 3.4Aspectual modification
- 3.5Potentiality and obligation
- 3.6Other properties
- 4.Modal adjectives: Analysis
- 4.1Against AspP and ModP
- 4.2Potentiality and passive construals: Connection with middles
- 4.3Deriving the other properties
- 5.On the difference between -dero and -ble
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Notes