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Adjectives without syntactic categories
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DOI：10.1007/s11049-026-09703-w.png)
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Elbourne has proposed that future research should investigate the possibility of eliminating syntactic categories from linguistic theory and letting their functions be taken over by independently motivated semantic categories such as semantic types ('A program for eliminating syntactic categories', 2024, Linguistic Inquiry). The current article applies this research programme to the case of adjectives. It argues that adjectives should be conceived of as functions from noun denotations to noun denotations (a unique type). Adjectives in predicative position are dealt with by giving a suitable denotation to the copula. Various arguments against this analysis of adjectives are reviewed and dismissed.
Keywords:
Syntactic categories
Semantic types
Adjectives
Attributive position
Predicative position
Copula
Meaning-dependent grammar
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