Can relational adjectives really express any relation? An onomasiological perspective  

Oleh:

Rainer, Franz

Jenis: Article from Journal
Dalam koleksi: SKASE: Journal of Theoretical Linguistics vol. 10 no. 1 (Jan. 2013), page 12-40.
Topik: relational adjective; nisba; blocking; onomasiology; word family
Fulltext: Franz Rainer.pdf (692.51KB)

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One commonplace about relational adjectives is that they are devoid of meaning and therefore able to express any conceivable relation between base noun and head noun. After an introductory first part, the second part comes to the conclusion that relational adjectives can indeed express any relation, except under three circumstances: a) for general cognitive reasons, the privative relation is never available; b) some relations can be absent due to the interference of a rival pattern; c) lexicalization. In the third and last part of the paper, an onomasiological approach is sketched that describes the decisions a speaker has to make on his way down from concept to utterance.

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