Eintrag

Titel

Syntactic positions of attributive adjectives

Personen

Nadira Aljović

Jahr

2010

Typ

Aufsatz

Verlag

John Benjamins Publishing Co.

Ort

Amsterdam, Philadelphia

Seiten

29 - 52

In

Adjectives. Formal analyses in syntax and semantics

Sprache(n)

Deutsch
Serbokroatisch

Schlagwörter

Adjektiv
Attributiv
Wortstellung

Abstract

The present contribution studies the syntax of long- and short-form adjectives in Serbocroatian. The discussion draws particularly on data from the Bosnian variant that marks long- and short-forms by vowel-length and pitch-accent in addition to inflectional suffixes. Based on evidence from ellipsis, noun phraseinternal coordination and ordering of multiple adjectives, I propose two different structures for attributive long- and short-form adjectives: attributive long-form adjectives occupy the specifier of a functional projection dominating NumP, while short-form attributive adjectives are adjoined to NumP. I also show that this analysis contributes to explain the differences in agreement morphology observed between long- and short-form adjectives. Finally, I propose to extend the present analysis to German.

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