Effets de sens dérivés de la qualification adjectivale
This paper bears upon three classes of adjectives: qualifying (speaker oriented), descriptive (intersective/non intersective), and (role-based) participles. The aim here is to show that a full interpretation of adjectival qualification needs to take into account semantic components over and above th...
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description | This paper bears upon three classes of adjectives: qualifying (speaker oriented), descriptive (intersective/non intersective), and (role-based) participles. The aim here is to show that a full interpretation of adjectival qualification needs to take into account semantic components over and above the “surface meaning” (or denotation): the positional properties of the attributive adjective; representation in terms of sets and subsets; interpretation of the qualifying adjective (here: the adjective nice) filtered through a positional property and the relevant components of its environment; interpretation of participle adjectives (slanting rain, enclosed garden) in terms of argument structure and semantic roles. |
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spelling | doaj.art-a6589bcf826246319756c47478dea7002024-02-14T09:08:09ZengPresses Universitaires du MidiAnglophonia1278-33312427-04662010.4000/anglophonia.570Effets de sens dérivés de la qualification adjectivaleChristopher DesurmontThis paper bears upon three classes of adjectives: qualifying (speaker oriented), descriptive (intersective/non intersective), and (role-based) participles. The aim here is to show that a full interpretation of adjectival qualification needs to take into account semantic components over and above the “surface meaning” (or denotation): the positional properties of the attributive adjective; representation in terms of sets and subsets; interpretation of the qualifying adjective (here: the adjective nice) filtered through a positional property and the relevant components of its environment; interpretation of participle adjectives (slanting rain, enclosed garden) in terms of argument structure and semantic roles.https://journals.openedition.org/anglophonia/570adjectivesdenotationpositional propertiesderived meaning |
spellingShingle | Christopher Desurmont Effets de sens dérivés de la qualification adjectivale Anglophonia adjectives denotation positional properties derived meaning |
title | Effets de sens dérivés de la qualification adjectivale |
title_full | Effets de sens dérivés de la qualification adjectivale |
title_fullStr | Effets de sens dérivés de la qualification adjectivale |
title_full_unstemmed | Effets de sens dérivés de la qualification adjectivale |
title_short | Effets de sens dérivés de la qualification adjectivale |
title_sort | effets de sens derives de la qualification adjectivale |
topic | adjectives denotation positional properties derived meaning |
url | https://journals.openedition.org/anglophonia/570 |
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