{"product_id":"9783820497410","title":"On 'Nominal Non-Predicating' Adjectives in English (Europäische Hochschulschriften \/ European University Studies\/Publications Universitaires Européenne .16) (Neuausg. 1987. XII, 209 S. 210 mm)","description":"\u003cp\u003e§16§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'. §04§Contents: U.a. Surface category label N - Productive processes vs. lexicalization - Focus of information - Extra-linguistic reasons - Squishy categories - Dynamic synchrony.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PETER LANG","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48984678629611,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":73.99,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/products\/9783820497410","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}