Some notes on Italian ethnic adjectives
In this paper, we deal with ethnic adjectives in Italian, arguing against the dichotomy between ‘thematic’ and ‘classificatory’ ethnic adjectives, recently assumed by Alexiadou and Stavrou (2011). Building on Manzini and Savoia (2011), Manzini and Franco (2016), Franco and Manzini (2017), Savoia et...
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| description | In this paper, we deal with ethnic adjectives in Italian, arguing against the dichotomy between ‘thematic’ and ‘classificatory’ ethnic adjectives, recently assumed by Alexiadou and Stavrou (2011). Building on Manzini and Savoia (2011), Manzini and Franco (2016), Franco and Manzini (2017), Savoia et al. (2017, forthcoming), we provide a unified characterization of Italian ethnic adjectives and we take the derivational morphemes shaping this kind of items to be a derivational counterpart of the genitive adposition di (of) (and other kinds of obliques), sharing with the latter a common predicational core and a common signature. The proposal advanced for ethnic adjectives can be broadly extended to relational adjectives in general. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3edc132bb1244e2fae2aa66ff8b549bc2022-12-21T20:40:59ZengFirenze University PressQuaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali2421-72202017-09-01310.13128/QULSO-2421-7220-2134017627Some notes on Italian ethnic adjectivesLudovico Franco0CLUNL/FCSH/Universidade Nova de LisboaIn this paper, we deal with ethnic adjectives in Italian, arguing against the dichotomy between ‘thematic’ and ‘classificatory’ ethnic adjectives, recently assumed by Alexiadou and Stavrou (2011). Building on Manzini and Savoia (2011), Manzini and Franco (2016), Franco and Manzini (2017), Savoia et al. (2017, forthcoming), we provide a unified characterization of Italian ethnic adjectives and we take the derivational morphemes shaping this kind of items to be a derivational counterpart of the genitive adposition di (of) (and other kinds of obliques), sharing with the latter a common predicational core and a common signature. The proposal advanced for ethnic adjectives can be broadly extended to relational adjectives in general.https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/bsfm-qulso/article/view/1890DPElementary PredicatesEthnic AdjectivesGenitives/Obliques |
| spellingShingle | Ludovico Franco Some notes on Italian ethnic adjectives Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali DP Elementary Predicates Ethnic Adjectives Genitives/Obliques |
| title | Some notes on Italian ethnic adjectives |
| title_full | Some notes on Italian ethnic adjectives |
| title_fullStr | Some notes on Italian ethnic adjectives |
| title_full_unstemmed | Some notes on Italian ethnic adjectives |
| title_short | Some notes on Italian ethnic adjectives |
| title_sort | some notes on italian ethnic adjectives |
| topic | DP Elementary Predicates Ethnic Adjectives Genitives/Obliques |
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