From Kinds to Objects: Prenominal and Postnominal Adjectives in Polish
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| Year of publication | 2014 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Complex Visibles Out There. Proceedings of the Olomouc Linguistics Colloquium 2014: Language Use and Linguistic Structure |
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| web | http://olinco.upol.cz/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/olinco-2014-proceedings.pdf |
| Keywords | prenominal adjectives; postnominal adjectives; modification; kinds |
| Description | 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). |