A New Look at "Predicative-Only" Adjectives in English  

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Jacobsson, Bengt

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of English Linguistics (Full Text) vol. 24 no. 3 (Sep. 1996), page 206-219.
Fulltext: Journal of English Linguistics-1996-Jacobsson-206-19.pdf (775.68KB)

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The present study is a revised and updated version of Jacobsson (1961), which was inspired by Raysor’s ( 1959) note on &dquo;An Unexpected Usage: Ahead, Alive, and the Like, before Nouns.&dquo; Although it seems to have gained some further ground during the past few decades, the usage referred to is still ignored or treated as an anomaly in most grammars and goes largely unrecorded in the dictionaries. Thus, to take just one example, the increasing attributive (prenominal) use of aware is not registered in the 1989 second edition of the monumental Oxford English Dictionary or the great authoritative A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language (Quirk et al. 1985). Before we turn to a discussion of this and other allegedly predicative-only adjectives, a few words should be said about the difficulty or impossibility of drawing a clear line of demarcation between adjectives and adverbs in English.

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