Affiliation:
1. TOBB EKONOMİ VE TEKNOLOJİ ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Abstract
In this paper, a new restriction on adjective ordering is proposed and it is shown that this restriction can be explained by the Final-over-Final Constraint.
First, the Final-over-Final Constraint is described with examples exhibiting its explanatory power. Later, various observations about adjectives are made and two analyses for adjectival syntax are presented: (a) adjunction analysis and (b) functional head analysis. Furthermore, it is suggested that adjectives obey a word-order restriction to be dubbed the Adjective Ordering Generalization. In the last section, it is shown that the Adjective Ordering Generalization can be explained by the Final-over-Final Constraint if we assume that adjectives are introduced via functional heads. The paper comes to an end with a brief discussion of a syntactic aprroach to the Final-over-Final constraint.
Subject
Computer Science Applications,History,Education
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