Full Description
Although the Germanic and Romance languages are two branches of the same language family and although both have developed the adjective as a separate syntactic and morphological category, the syntax, morphology, and interpretation of adjectives is by no means the same in these two language groups, and there is even variation within each of the language groups. One of the main aims of this volume is to map the differences and similarities in syntactic behavior, morphology, and meaning of the Germanic and Romance adjective and to find an answer to the following question: Are the (dis)similarities the result of autonomous developments in each of the two branches of the Indo-European language family, or are they caused by language contact?
Contents
1. Foreword; 2. The adjective in Germanic and Romance: Development, differences and similarities (by Van de Velde, Freek); 3. Part I: Change; 4. The adjective-adverb interface in Romance and English (by Hummel, Martin); 5. The position proper of the adjective in Middle English: A result of language contact (by Trips, Carola); 6. Strong and weak adjectives in Old Swedish (by Stroh-Wollin, Ulla); 7. The resilient nature of adjectival inflection in Dutch (by Van de Velde, Freek); 8. Part II: Variation; 9. On the properties of attributive phrases in Germanic (and beyond) (by Struckmeier, Volker); 10. From participle to adjective in Germanic and Romance (by Sleeman, Petra); 11. The mixed categorial behavior of cel + participle in Romanian (by Niculescu, Dana); 12. Inside and outside - Before and after: Weak and strong adjectives in Icelandic (by Pfaff, Alexander); 13. Adjectives in German and Norwegian: Differences in weak and strong inflections (by Roehrs, Dorian); 14. Cross-linguistic variation in agreement on Germanic predicate adjectives (by Schoorlemmer, Erik); 15. Author Index; 16. Subject Index
