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Page 78 of 330

Mixed Categories
  • The Morphosyntax of Noun Modification
  • Irina Nikolaeva, Andrew Spencer
  • Published online:
    28 October 2019
    Print publication:
    31 October 2019
  • Exploring the phenomenon of 'mixed categories', this book is the first in-depth study of the way in which languages can use a noun, as opposed to an adjective, to modify another noun. It investigates noun-adjective hybrids - adjectives and adjective-like attributive forms which have been derived from nouns and systematically retain certain nominal properties. These rarely-discussed types of mixed category raise a number of important theoretical questions about the nature of lexemic identity, the inflection-derivation divide, and more generally, the relationship between the structure of words and their phrasal syntax. The book proposes a new formal framework that models cross-linguistic and cross-constructional variation in noun modification constructions. The framework it offers enables readers to explicitly map word structure to syntactic structure, providing new insights into, and impacting upon, all current theoretical models of grammar.

  • Chapter 3 - Whatever Happened to Whatever?

  • from Part I - Approaches to Grammatical Categories and Categorial Change
  • Edited by Nuria Yáñez-Bouza, Universidade de Vigo, Spain, Emma Moore, University of Sheffield, Linda van Bergen, University of Edinburgh, Willem B. Hollmann, Lancaster University
  • Book:
    Categories, Constructions, and Change in English Syntax
    Published online:
    07 October 2019
    Print publication:
    10 October 2019, pp 81-104

  • Summary

    The research presented below focuses on aspects of the contemporary forms and uses of whatever in Present-day English, along with some discussion of recent diachronic variation which has given rise to these contemporary forms and uses. The research is partly quantitative and partly qualitative in nature; the quantification of variants is an attempt to complement the work of Brinton (2017), whose research on whatever is primarily qualitative, and we extend her qualitative analysis by considering additional data from a web corpus.

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