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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| Language: | English |
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Presses Universitaires du Midi
2012-11-01
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| Series: | Anglophonia |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/anglophonia/188 |