Deverbal modifiers of the noun in Germanic and Romance: interpretation and position

In this paper it is argued that deverbal modifiers of the noun are mixed categories that, both in Germanic and Romance, can have various interpretations, from purely verbal to purely adjectival, with several mixed interpretations in between. If prenominal and postnominal reduced relatives, which gen...

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Main Author: Petra Sleeman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti 2011-01-01
Series:Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics
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Online Access:http://bwpl.unibuc.ro/index.pl/deverbal_modifiers_of_the_noun_in_germanic_and_romance_interpretation_and_position