TY - JOUR
TI - Polish Comparative Adjectives and Adverbs
AU - Wiland, Bartosz
TI - Polish Comparative Adjectives and Adverbs
AB - The paper investigates the morphosyntax of Polish synthetic comparative adjectives and adverbs. It is argued that we can predict the distribution of different classes of adjectival roots and suffixes if we adopt the idea that both types of morphemes lexicalize syntactic constituents, the central tenet of Nanosyntax. The paper makes a case for two central claims. One is that the syn-sem properties of adjectives can be described with a finegrained syntactic sequence proposed for Slovak in Vanden Wyngaerd et al. (2020). The other one is that the lexical properties of Polish gradable adverbs follow from the syntactic representation of the adverb as properly containing the syntactic representation of the adjective.
VL - Volume 18 (2023)
IS - Vol. 18, Issue 3
PY - 2023
SN - 1732-8160
C1 - 2300-5920
SP - 97
EP - 143
DO - 10.4467/23005920SPL.23.006.18681
UR - https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/studies-in-polish-linguistics/artykul/polish-comparative-adjectives-and-adverbs
KW - adjectives
KW - adverbs
KW - roots
KW - affixes
KW - comparative
KW - Nanosyntax