Incompatibilité du génitif et des constructions à tête adjectivale (*the disabled’s working conditions) – invariant sémantique et contrainte syntaxique sont-ils conciliables ?

NPs with adjectival heads (the rich, the French) cannot be used as modifiers in genitive constructions (*the disabled’s working conditions), but require the use of an of-phrase (the working conditions of the disabled). The aim of this paper is to try to account for this syntactic constraint by relat...

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Main Author: Evelyne Chabert
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires du Midi 2012-11-01
Series:Anglophonia
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/acs/12622
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