Meanings
- not comparablehuman sciencesRelating to the Italian linguist Guglielmo Cinque.
A possible solution is to keep the Cinquean analysis for plain adjectives and modify it so as to accommodate for operator adjectives as well.
2006, Alexandra Teodorescu, “Adjective Ordering Restrictions Revisited”, in Donald Baumer, David Montero, Michael Scanlon, editors, Proceedings of the 25th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project, →ISBN, page 4021 more example
Another difficulty with this approach is that it embodies essentially the Cinquean conception that proved problematic in section 5.3.2. As pointed out there, the nonrestrictive/restrictive contrast seems to cross-cut other semantically based adjective and adverb classes. Thus, even though this is essentially a Cinquean approach, in a curious way it would be difficult to reconcile with a broader Cinquean model […]
2008, Marcin Morzycki, “Nonrestrictive modifiers in non-parenthetical positions”, in Louise McNally, Christopher Kennedy, editors, Adjectives and Adverbs: Syntax, Semantics, and Discourse, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 121
Origin
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