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Adjectives in Germanic and Romance
Author(s): Petra Sleeman (Editor), Freek Van de Velde (Editor), Harry Perridon (Editor)
- Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
- Publication Date: February 18, 2014
- Language: English
- Print length: 293 pages
- ISBN-10: 9027255954
- ISBN-13: 9789027255952
Book Description
Although the Germanic and Romance languages are two branches of the same language family and although both have developed the adjective as a separate syntactic and morphological category, the syntax, morphology, and interpretation of adjectives is by no means the same in these two language groups, and there is even variation within each of the language groups. One of the main aims of this volume is to map the differences and similarities in syntactic behavior, morphology, and meaning of the Germanic and Romance adjective and to find an answer to the following question: Are the (dis)similarities the result of autonomous developments in each of the two branches of the Indo-European language family, or are they caused by language contact?
