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Compton, Richard James.

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The Syntax and Semantics of Modification in Inuktitut: Adjectives and Adverbs in a Polysynthetic Language.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Syntax and Semantics of Modification in Inuktitut: Adjectives and Adverbs in a Polysynthetic Language./
Author:	Compton, Richard James.
Description:	230 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 74-08(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International74-08A(E).
Subject:	Linguistics. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=NR79427
ISBN:	9780494794272

The Syntax and Semantics of Modification in Inuktitut: Adjectives and Adverbs in a Polysynthetic Language.
Compton, Richard James.

The Syntax and Semantics of Modification in Inuktitut: Adjectives and Adverbs in a Polysynthetic Language. - 230 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 74-08(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto (Canada), 2012.

This thesis explores the properties of adjectives and adverbs in Inuit (Eskimo-Aleut), with focus on the Inuktitut dialect group. While the literature on Eskimoan languages has claimed that they lack these categories, I present syntactic evidence for two classes of adjectives, one verb-like and another strictly attributive, as well as a class of adverbs. These categories are then employed to diagnose more general properties of the language including headedness, word-formation, adjunct licensing, and semantic composition.

ISBN: 9780494794272Subjects--Topical Terms:

524476
Linguistics.

The Syntax and Semantics of Modification in Inuktitut: Adjectives and Adverbs in a Polysynthetic Language.
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520 $a This thesis explores the properties of adjectives and adverbs in Inuit (Eskimo-Aleut), with focus on the Inuktitut dialect group. While the literature on Eskimoan languages has claimed that they lack these categories, I present syntactic evidence for two classes of adjectives, one verb-like and another strictly attributive, as well as a class of adverbs. These categories are then employed to diagnose more general properties of the language including headedness, word-formation, adjunct licensing, and semantic composition.
520 $a In the first half of Chapter 2 I demonstrate that verb-like adjectives can be differentiated from verbs insofar as only the former are compatible with a particular copular construction involving modals. Similarly, verb-like adjectives can combine with a negative marker that is incompatible with genuine verbs. This contrast is further corroborated by an inflectional distinction between verb-like adjectives and verbs in the Siglitun dialect. A second class of strictly-attributive adjectives is argued for on the basis of stacking, variable order, optionality, and compositionality. The second half of the chapter examines semantic restrictions on membership in the strictly-attributive class whereby only adjectives with subsective and privative denotations are attested. These restrictions are explained by the proposal that Inuit lacks a rule of Predicate Modification, with the result that only adjectives with semantic types capable of composing with nouns via Functional Application can compose directly with nominals. Furthermore, to explain why this restriction does not extend to verb-like adjectives it is proposed that when these modify nominals, they are adjoined DP appositives and compose via Potts's (2005) rule of Conventional Implicature Application.
520 $a In Chapter 3 I argue for a class of adverbs, presenting evidence including degree modification, variable ordering, speaker-oriented meanings, and the ability to modify additional categories. Finally, data from adverb ordering is used to compare syntactically oriented and semantically oriented approaches to adjunct licensing and verbal-complex formation. I present arguments in favour of a right-headed analysis of Inuit in which the relative position of adverbs inside polysynthetic verbal-complexes is primarily determined by semantics, supporting Ernst (2002), contra cartographic approaches such as Cinque (1999).
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