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Spanish language --- Grammar --- -Castilian language --- Romance languages --- Adjective --- Adjective. --- -Adjective

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"This is the first book that presents a complete empirical description and theoretical analysis of all major classes of derived adjectives in Spanish, both deverbal and denominal. The reader will find here both a detailed empirical description of the syntactic, morphological and semantic properties of derived adjectives in contemporary Spanish and a cohesive Neo-Constructionist analysis of the syntactic and semantic tools that contemporary Spanish has available to build adjectives from other grammatical categories within a Nanosyntactic-oriented framework. In doing so, this book throws light on the nature of adjectives as a grammatical categoy and argues that adjectives are syntactically built by recycling functional heads belonging to other categories. The book will be useful both to researchers in Spanish linguistics or theoretical morphology and to advanced students of Spanish interested in the main ways of building new adjectives through suffixation in this language"--

Spanish language --- Adjective. --- Morphology.

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Le Dictionnaire historique de l'adjectif-adverbe recense les groupes de mots du type couper court, dans lesquels un verbe est combiné avec un adjectif à fonction adverbiale. Ordonnées alphabétiquement, les 2 600 entrées du dictionnaire vont de abaisser bas à voter utile. Elles sont attestées par quelque 12 000 citations couvrant l'histoire de la langue française, du Moyen Âge à nos jours. « Expressions savoureuses » selon Lucien Tesnière, les adjectifs-adverbes constituent une ressource stylistique précieuse tant en littérature que dans la publicité et au "idien. Ce dictionnaire fait ainsi la part belle au plaisir de la langue. Élaboré à partir de quelque 70 publications dédiées à la morphologie et à la syntaxe de l'adjectif-adverbe dans la Romania, il combine de façon unique documentation lexicographique et recherche linguistique. The Historical Dictionary of French Adjective-Adverbs (Dictionnaire historique de l'adjectif-adverbe) documents groups such as couper court which combine a verb and an adjective with adverbial function. The 2.600 entries are classified by alphabetical order, from abaisser bas to voter utile. The articles contain some 12.000 citations covering the whole history of French, from the Middle Ages to this day.

Adjective. --- Adverb. --- Language History. --- Lexicography.

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The present volume is a corpus-based study of the occurrence, variation, and change in the use of English adjective pairs in - ic and - ical over several centuries. The study involves the analysis of large, multi-million-word corpora representing the English language at various stages. It examines the nature of competition between the two affixes: what kind of rivalry existed, what kinds of words entered into competition, and in what ways the rivalry was resolved. The book presents close studies of six notably differentiated -ic/-ical adjective pairs, namely classic/classical, comic/comical, economic/economical, electric/electrical, historic/historical, and magic/magical , as well as commentaries on some 40 other -ic/-ical pairs, which manifest different types of shifts in use through history. It also includes critical discussion of general perceptions on and approaches to the practical use of corpora, stressing the importance of close and careful study of the materials under analysis. It further emphasises the value of consulting a variety of sources alongside corpora, including dictionaries and language usage manuals. This volume is of interest to language scholars in many fields, including corpus linguistics, diachronic linguistics, semantic change, lexicology, and word formation.

English language --- Adjective. --- Nominals --- Nominals. --- Germanic languages

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The order and behaviour of the premodifier (an adjective, or other modifying word that appears before a noun) has long been a puzzle to syntacticians and semanticists. Why can we say 'the actual red ball', but not 'the red actual ball'? And why, conversely, do some other premodifiers have free variation in sentences; for example we can say both 'German and English speakers' and 'English and German speakers'? Why do some premodifiers change the meaning of a phrase in some contexts; for example 'young man', can mean 'boyfriend', rather than 'man who is young'? Drawing on a corpus of over 4,000 examples of English premodifiers from a range of genres such as advertising, fiction and scientific texts, and across several varieties of English, this book synthesises research into premodifiers and provides a new explanation of their behaviour, order and use.

English language --- Adjective --- Nominals --- Grammar --- Adjective. --- Arts and Humanities --- Language & Linguistics --- Germanic languages