Effets de sens dérivés de la qualification adjectivale
This paper bears upon three classes of adjectives: qualifying (speaker oriented), descriptive (intersective/non intersective), and (role-based) participles. The aim here is to show that a full interpretation of adjectival qualification needs to take into account semantic components over and above th...
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| description | This paper bears upon three classes of adjectives: qualifying (speaker oriented), descriptive (intersective/non intersective), and (role-based) participles. The aim here is to show that a full interpretation of adjectival qualification needs to take into account semantic components over and above the “surface meaning” (or denotation): the positional properties of the attributive adjective; representation in terms of sets and subsets; interpretation of the qualifying adjective (here: the adjective nice) filtered through a positional property and the relevant components of its environment; interpretation of participle adjectives (slanting rain, enclosed garden) in terms of argument structure and semantic roles. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-ea664049ca5b45679fd959b13a9518832025-01-30T12:32:55ZengPresses Universitaires du MidiAnglophonia1278-33312427-04662015-11-012010.4000/anglophonia.570Effets de sens dérivés de la qualification adjectivaleChristopher DesurmontThis paper bears upon three classes of adjectives: qualifying (speaker oriented), descriptive (intersective/non intersective), and (role-based) participles. The aim here is to show that a full interpretation of adjectival qualification needs to take into account semantic components over and above the “surface meaning” (or denotation): the positional properties of the attributive adjective; representation in terms of sets and subsets; interpretation of the qualifying adjective (here: the adjective nice) filtered through a positional property and the relevant components of its environment; interpretation of participle adjectives (slanting rain, enclosed garden) in terms of argument structure and semantic roles.https://journals.openedition.org/anglophonia/570adjectivesdenotationpositional propertiesderived meaning |
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| title_short | Effets de sens dérivés de la qualification adjectivale |
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