How adjectival can a participle be?; Subsective Gradience in English 2nd Participles

ISBN-13: 9781800795242 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022

Graeme Davis; Karl Bernhardt; Samirah Aljohani

Opis

This study of the adjectival passive uses Christopher Beedham's aspect analysis of the passive to reconcile the contradiction between verbal and adjectival passive. The author's study of 1,000 2nd participles presented to native speakers results in a new gradient scale of adjectival passives.

Recenzje

«This book takes theoretical linguistics by storm, moving our understanding of the passive construction onto a whole new level. Samirah Aljohani puts the adjectival passive under the empirical lexico-grammatical microscope, producing numbers which both dazzle and clarify. Inspired science from copious data presented in an accessible style - absolutely brilliant!» (Dr Christopher Beedham, University of St Andrews, Scotland)

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction - The Aspect Analysis of the Passive - Methodology: Structuralism, Exceptions and Corpora - A Correlation between Attributive 2^nd Participles and Adjectival Passive - Subsective Gradience in 2^nd Participles - Recap and Implications - Summary and Conclusion.

O autorze

SAMIRAH ALJOHANI is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Taibah University, Medina, Saudi Arabia. She completed her Masters at University College London (UCL) and her PhD at the University of St Andrews, Scotland.