Kind prenominal and postnominal adjectives in Czech
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| Year of publication | 2020 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Linguistica Brunensia |
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| web | online PDF |
| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/LB2020-1-5 |
| Keywords | kind; prenominal adjectives; postnominal adjectives; Czech |
| Description | In this paper, I investigate prenominal and postnominal adjectives in Czech for their syntactic and semantic properties. I claim that both types of adjectives can refer to kinds. Still, they differ with respect to the nature of the kinds they designate: postnominal kind adjectives are reserved for natural kinds, whereas prenominal kind adjectives indicate kinds created artificially. For this purpose, I assume that the kind domain is split into two sub-domains and the resulting surface structure is caused by the movement of a noun. I postulate a reformulation of the standard entailment-based typology test to prove that both types of kind adjectives are intersective adjectival modifiers. |
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