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    Three puzzles about denominal adjectives in- EUX

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    French adjectives in- EUX (e.g., laiteux ‘milky’) usually have all the properties of true intersective adjectives. However, they sometimes behave like ordinary denominal adjectives e.g., presidential (no predication, no gradation, argument-saturating capacity). It is argued that this change is tied to the nature of the relationship between the base N ( lait in laiteux ) and the N which heads the NP the denominal adjective occurs in. Assuming that the denominal adjective’s semantics is equivalent to that of its base noun, three cases have to be distinguished. In the first one, the adjective functions as an argument of a predicate denoting an event and involving causal chaining, e.g., presidential trip . In the second one, the adjective is an argument of an event denoting predicate but the latter involves an internal causation instead of causal chaining, e.g., averse neigeuse ‘snowfall’. In the third, the relationship is based upon an internal link between the two nouns (e.g., pont dangereux ‘dangerous bridge’) and the A is intersective

    Remarks on state denoting nominalizations

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    Certaines nominalisations, formées morphologiquement sur la base de verbes non statifs comme emprisonner, sont régulièrement associées à une lecture stative lorsqu’elles apparaissent dans le contexte d’un modifieur ou d’un prédicat de durée. Cet article montre que les nominalisations en question sont toutes construites sur des verbes dont la sémantique comporte une relation spatiale. Les autres facteurs entrant en ligne de compte pour déterminer le caractère statif de l’interprétation sont la scalarité et la stativité du verbe. En général, les lexèmes verbaux ayant une échelle fermée dont le standard correspond au maximum ne peuvent pas avoir de nominalisation présentant une lecture stative comme traduction. Les nominalisations étudiées ici, par exemple immersion, occupation, sont construites sur des léxèmes verbaux présentant ce type de propriété. L’article se propose d’éclaircir pourquoi la lecture stative est néanmoins possible et montre comment on peut y arriver dans le cadre qu’il se donne.Some nominalizations, morphologically formed on non-stative verbs e.g. emprisonner/to jail, are regularly associated with a stative reading when occurring in a duration context. This article shows that the nominalizations in question are all constructed on verbs whose semantics involves a spatial relation. The other dimensions that prove to be crucial in determining the occurrence of the stative interpretation are scalarity and agentivity. Normally verbal lexemes associated with a closed scale with maximal standard cannot be correlated with a nominalization exhibiting a stative reading e.g. traduction. However, the nominalizations studied here e.g. immersion ‘immersion’, occupation ‘occupation’ are precisely based on verbal lexemes that share these properties. The article addresses this puzzle and shows how it can be handled within the framework adopted here

    Three puzzles about denominal adjectives in- EUX

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    The role and nature of series in lexeme formation morphology

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    Esquisse d'une sémantique de la préfixation en ‘anti-’

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    French denumerals in -aire

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    The role and nature of series in lexeme formation morphology

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    Hypothèses sur la forme de la représentation sémantique des noms

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    Les mots-valises: jeux et enjeux

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    Langue, discours, lexique

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    Fradin B. Langue, discours, lexique. In: Linx, n°10, 1984. Syntaxe & Discours. pp. 159-165
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