TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sebastian Wasak
PY  - 2021
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 2365-8150
SN  - 9783631850381
TI  - The Syntax of Deverbal Compound Adjectives in English
T2  - Internal Structure and Categorial Identity
DO  - 10.3726/b18227
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1059464
N2  - This volume presents research into the syntax and semantics of English deverbal compound adjectives based on the passive and active participles, e.g. pencil-drawn, action-packed, risk-taking, time-consuming. The study, couched in the current Distributed Morphology framework, uses rich linguistic data to investigate the syntactic behaviour of English participial compounds, in particular their ability to occur in typically adjectival and verbal contexts. The main claim of this work is that the verbal syntactic layers are not universally projected in the internal structure of adjectival synthetic compounds, the most important consequence of which is that linguistic formations derived from lexical verbs, even in combination with their arguments, need not be deverbal in the morphosyntactic sense.
KW  - deverbal adjective, compound adjective, external argument, passive participle, inner affixation, outer affixation
LA  - English
ER  -