Adjectives in Germanic and Romance

Editors

Petra Sleeman | University of Amsterdam

Freek Van de Velde | University of Leuven

Harry Perridon | University of Amsterdam

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Although the Germanic and Romance languages are two branches of the same language family and although both have developed the adjective as a separate syntactic and morphological category, the syntax, morphology, and interpretation of adjectives is by no means the same in these two language groups, and there is even variation within each of the language groups. One of the main aims of this volume is to map the differences and similarities in syntactic behavior, morphology, and meaning of the Germanic and Romance adjective and to find an answer to the following question: Are the (dis)similarities the result of autonomous developments in each of the two branches of the Indo-European language family, or are they caused by language contact?

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 212] 2014. vii, 286 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/la.212

Table of Contents

Foreword | pp. vii–viii

The adjective in Germanic and Romance: Development, differences and similarities

Freek Van de Velde, Petra Sleeman and Harry Perridon | pp. 1–32

Part I: Change

The adjective-adverb interface in Romance and English

Martin Hummel | pp. 35–72

The position proper of the adjective in Middle English: A result of language contact

Carola Trips | pp. 73–94

Strong and weak adjectives in Old Swedish

Ulla Stroh-Wollin and Rico Simke | pp. 95–112

The resilient nature of adjectival inflection in Dutch

Freek Van de Velde and Fred Weerman | pp. 113–146

Part II: Variation

On the properties of attributive phrases in Germanic (and beyond)

Volker Struckmeier and Joost Kremers | pp. 149–170

From participle to adjective in Germanic and Romance

Petra Sleeman | pp. 171–198

The mixed categorial behavior of cel + participle in Romanian

Dana Niculescu | pp. 199–216

Inside and outside – Before and after: Weak and strong adjectives in Icelandic

Alexander Pfaff | pp. 217–244

Adjectives in German and Norwegian: Differences in weak and strong inflections

Dorian Roehrs and Marit Julien | pp. 245–262

Cross-linguistic variation in agreement on Germanic predicate adjectives

Erik Schoorlemmer | pp. 263–278

Author Index | pp. 279–282

Subject Index | pp. 283–286

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