ENGLISH STACKED ADJECTIVES: THEIR PRENOMINAL AND POSTVERBAL ATTRIBUTES
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A number of linguists have shown their interest in English adjectival sequence, but most of them (for example, Hetzron (1978), Quirk et al. (1985), Kingsbury and Wellman (1986), and Scott (2002)) were concerned with those which take place in prenominal positions. Unlike these previous studies, Hah (2004) makes an attempt to expand the horizon to the adjectival sequence in postverbal positions, by suggesting so-called semantic closeness condition as a tool for a unified account of adjectival sequence in both prenominal and postverbal positions. Seeing that the approach faces a systematic problem, however, the present paper claims that the semantic closeness condition applies locally to prenominal adjectives. Given the claim, it is understandable why adjectives invariably assume a conjoined relationship or its equivalent when they appear predicatively as subject complement. Furthermore, a new insight is gained into what determines the sequence of postverbal adjectives. Based on corpus analysis, I demonstrate that when it comes to the ordering between adjectives in postverbal positions, conventions prevail unless a certain factor like a cause-and-effect relation enforces another order.
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A number of linguists have shown their interest in English adjectival sequence, but most of them (for example, Hetzron (1978), Quirk et al. (1985), Kingsbury and Wellman (1986), and Scott (2002)) were concerned with those which take place in prenominal positions. Unlike these previous studies, Hah (2004) makes an attempt to expand the horizon to the adjectival sequence in postverbal positions, by suggesting so-called semantic closeness condition as a tool for a unified account of adjectival sequence in both prenominal and postverbal positions. Seeing that the approach faces a systematic problem, however, the present paper claims that the semantic closeness condition applies locally to prenominal adjectives. Given the claim, it is understandable why adjectives invariably assume a conjoined relationship or its equivalent when they appear predicatively as subject complement. Furthermore, a new insight is gained into what determines the sequence of postverbal adjectives. Based on corpus analysis, I demonstrate that when it comes to the ordering between adjectives in postverbal positions, conventions prevail unless a certain factor like a cause-and-effect relation enforces another order.
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