TY  - JOUR
U1  - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed)
A1  - Gunkel, Lutz
A1  - Zifonun, Gisela
T1  - Constraints on relational-adjective noun constructions : a comparative view on English, German and French
JF  - Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik : a quarterly of language, literature and culture
N2  - In English and French relational adjectives occurring in construction with deverbal nominalizations can be thematically associated with subject as well as object arguments. By contrast, in German object-related readings of relational adjectives seem to be inadmissible. The greater flexibility of English and French in terms of the thematic interpretability of relational adjectives also shows up with respect to "circumstantial" thematic roles like directionals, locatives and instrumentals. It is arguably due to the common Latin heritage of English and French, since in Latin relational adjectives representing subject or object arguments of nominalizations are widely attested. However, even in English and French object-related readings are confined to result nominalizations, a restriction we suggest to account for in terms of the more "noun-like" character of result nominalizations in contrast to process nominalizations. Moreover, since argument-related interpretations of relational adjectives can always be overridden by appropriate agentive/ patientive phrases, relational adjectives cannot be analyzed as occupying an argument position, but rather as modifying the semantic role associated with it.
KW  - Deutsch
KW  - Englisch
KW  - Französisch
KW  - Adjektiv
KW  - Kontrastive Grammatik
Y1  - 2008
U6  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-8489
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-8489
SN  - 1434-0348
SS  - 1434-0348
VL  - 26
SP  - 283
EP  - 302
S1  - 20
PB  - Stauffenburg
CY  - Tübingen
ER  -