Acknowledgements |
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List of abbreviations |
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1 Introduction |
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1 Derivation in morphology |
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2 The framework: Distributed Morphology |
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3 | (5) |
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2.2 Romance theme vowels in DM |
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3.1 Participles versus deverbal adjectives |
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3.2 Participles in DM: Embick (2003, 2004) |
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2 -BLE |
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24 | (4) |
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1.1 Main claims and chapter overview |
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25 | (3) |
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28 | (14) |
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2.1 Aspects of the morphology of English and German -ble |
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2.2 Aspects of the morphology of Catalan and Spanish -ble |
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33 | (5) |
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2.3 English vs. Romance: Theme vowels and beyond |
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38 | (4) |
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42 | (1) |
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3 The external syntax of -ble |
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42 | (56) |
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43 | (3) |
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46 | (18) |
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3.2.1 The expression of arguments |
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47 | (8) |
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3.2.2 Adverbial modification |
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55 | (4) |
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3.2.3 Negated -ble adjectives and eventivity |
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59 | (5) |
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64 | (1) |
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64 | (32) |
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3.3.1 The external argument of the adjective |
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66 | (3) |
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3.3.2 The passive component |
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69 | (11) |
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3.3.2.1 Non-passive -ble adjectives |
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76 | (4) |
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3.3.3 The external argument of the verb |
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80 | (13) |
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3.3.3.1 Constraints on the expression of the verb's external argument |
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82 | (4) |
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3.3.3.2 The implicit external argument |
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3.3.4 Two main types of -ble |
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96 | (2) |
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98 | (30) |
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4.1 The modality of ble crosslinguistically |
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101 | (4) |
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4.2 Two interpretations for modal -ble |
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105 | (9) |
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4.2.1 Two interpretations of -ble across languages |
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110 | (4) |
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114 | (7) |
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4.4 The modal context of -ble |
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121 | (6) |
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4.4.1 Licensing free choice any |
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121 | (1) |
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4.4.2 On subjunctive and specificity |
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122 | (5) |
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127 | (1) |
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128 | (20) |
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129 | (5) |
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134 | (11) |
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134 | (8) |
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5.2.1.1 Properties of middles |
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135 | (4) |
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139 | (3) |
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5.2.2 -ble derived from middle |
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142 | (3) |
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5.3 -ble in Distributed Morphology |
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145 | (3) |
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6 Towards an analysis of -ble |
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148 | (14) |
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6.1 The internal syntax of -ble |
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149 | (2) |
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6.2 The structure for high -ble |
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151 | (2) |
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6.3 The structure for low -ble |
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153 | (2) |
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6.4 The Vocabulary item -ble crosslinguistically |
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155 | (16) |
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6.4.1 The case of German -ble |
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156 | (1) |
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6.4.2 On multiple theme vowels |
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157 | (2) |
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6.4.3 Morphological evidence |
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159 | (3) |
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7 Conclusions and remaining issues |
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162 | (3) |
3 Case Study 1: V todo lo Vble |
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165 | (2) |
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2 Main claims and chapter overview |
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167 | (4) |
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3 V todo lo Vble. General Properties |
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171 | (16) |
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173 | (3) |
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3.1.1 Pleonastic structure with allomorphic verbal roots |
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174 | (2) |
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176 | (1) |
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176 | (5) |
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3.4 The interpretation of V todo lo Vble |
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181 | (6) |
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187 | (19) |
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4.1 todo to Vble as a cognate object |
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188 | (11) |
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199 | (7) |
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206 | (40) |
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5.1 Cognate objects with unaccusative verbs |
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213 | (13) |
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5.1.1 Unaccusative COs in English |
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214 | (10) |
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5.1.2 Unaccusative COs in English and Spanish: A crosslinguistic parallelism |
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224 | (2) |
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226 | (6) |
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232 | (13) |
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245 | (1) |
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6 Unergative and unaccusative -ble |
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246 | (4) |
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250 | (3) |
4 Case study 2: N-ble |
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253 | (52) |
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253 | (3) |
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1.1 Main claims and chapter overview |
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255 | (1) |
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2 Denominal -ble adjectives |
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256 | (26) |
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256 | (6) |
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256 | (5) |
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2.1.1.1 Analyzing English Nble |
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258 | (3) |
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2.1.2 Catalan and Spanish Nble |
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261 | (1) |
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262 | (20) |
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262 | (5) |
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2.2.2 The productivity of Nble in Romance |
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267 | (1) |
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2.2.3 Productive Nble: Romance versus English |
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268 | (1) |
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2.2.4 Properties of the N-base |
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269 | (13) |
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3 Towards an analysis of Nble |
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282 | (21) |
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3.1 Predictions of the analysis |
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302 | (1) |
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303 | (2) |
5 Conclusions and directions for further research |
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305 | (14) |
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1 Summary and further research on V todo lo Vble |
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305 | (6) |
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1.1 Crosslinguistic variation |
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306 | (1) |
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1.2 Cognation across languages |
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307 | (2) |
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1.3 Degree cognates and resultatives as incremental themes |
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309 | (2) |
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1.4 todo lo Vble as an amount relative? |
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311 | (1) |
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2 Summary and further research on Nble |
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311 | (5) |
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2.1 Post-denoting -ble across languages |
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312 | (3) |
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2.2 The case of Italian Nble |
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315 | (1) |
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2.3 Intralinguistic variation: German -bar/-wert/-abel |
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315 | (1) |
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316 | (3) |
References |
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Index |
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