From Kinds to Objects: Prenominal and Postnominal Adjectives in Polish

WĄGIEL, Marcin. From Kinds to Objects: Prenominal and Postnominal Adjectives in Polish. In Ludmila Veselovská, Markéta Janebová. Complex Visibles Out There. Proceedings of the Olomouc Linguistics Colloquium 2014: Language Use and Linguistic Structure. Olomouc: Palacký University, 2014, s. 457-476. ISBN 978-80-244-4384-3.

Základní údaje

Originální název

From Kinds to Objects: Prenominal and Postnominal Adjectives in Polish

Autoři

WĄGIEL, Marcin

Vydání

Olomouc, Complex Visibles Out There. Proceedings of the Olomouc Linguistics Colloquium 2014: Language Use and Linguistic Structure, od s. 457-476, 20 s. 2014

Nakladatel

Palacký University

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Další údaje

Typ výsledku

Stať ve sborníku

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není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Forma vydání

tištěná verze "print"

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Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

ISBN

978-80-244-4384-3

Klíčová slova anglicky

prenominal adjectives; postnominal adjectives; modification; kinds

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Anotace

V originále

In this paper I discuss two types of adjectival modification in Polish, namely the semantics of prenominal and postnominal adjectives. I discuss different entailment patterns related to the placement of adjectival modifiers and the relationship between adjectives in both positions and genericity. I postulate a unified intersective semantics for both prenominal and postnominal adjectives and argue that they are predicates denoting properties of objects and kinds respectively. I posit that the kind area is associated with the NP and in the process of semantic composition nouns first combine with postnominal modifiers and then with prenominal ones. The proposal is based on the syntactic analysis of Rutkowski and Progovac (2005) and the semantic framework of McNally and Boleda (2004).