Mixed Categories: The Morphosyntax of Noun Modification

by Andrew Spencer and Irina Nikolaeva

Book Overview

Exploring the phenomenon of 'mixed categories', this book is the first in-depth study of the way in which languages can use a noun, as opposed to an adjective, to modify another noun. It investigates noun-adjective hybrids - adjectives and adjective-like attributive forms which have been derived from nouns and systematically retain certain nominal properties. These rarely-discussed types of mixed category raise a number of important theoretical questions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 110840152X
• ISBN13: 9781108401524
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 419 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"