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On 'Nominal Non-Predicating' Adjectives in English

On 'Nominal Non-Predicating' Adjectives in English

George, Steffi

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Series: Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studie, Book 168

English as a Second LanguageGrammar & Style

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ISBN10: 3820497412
ISBN13: 9783820497410
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: Dec 31 1987
Pages: 209
Language: English
The study tries to show - on the basis of a large collection of data - that the labelling of adjectives such as environmental, nuclear, linguistic, urban as 'nominal, non-preicating' does not adequately account for observable language behaviour. 'Lexicalized' terms such as polar bear behave like unitary nouns, but otherwise these adjectives can well be found in predicative position; they may also accept adverbial modification. Various syntactic tests demonstrate that attempts to explain predicative occurrences as resulting from ellipsis, from Head Noun Deletion, fail in a large number of cases. The conclusion reached in this thesis is that the adjectives in question cannot generally be considered 'attributive-only'.

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