Adjectives in Germanic and Romance
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- Editor(s): Petra Sleeman 1 , Freek Van de Velde 2 and Harry Perridon 1
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View Affiliations Hide AffiliationsAffiliations:1 University of Amsterdam2 University of Leuven
- Format: PDF
- Publication Date February 2014
- e-Book ISBN: 9789027270689
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/la.212
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?
Related Topics:
Generative linguistics
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Germanic linguistics
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Historical linguistics
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Morphology
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Romance linguistics
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Syntax
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Theoretical linguistics
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