Arnold, D and Sadler, L (2014) The `big mess' construction. In: UNSPECIFIED, ? - ?.
Arnold, D and Sadler, L (2014) The `big mess' construction. In: UNSPECIFIED, ? - ?.
Arnold, D and Sadler, L (2014) The `big mess' construction. In: UNSPECIFIED, ? - ?.
Abstract
An LFG treatment is proposed for the ?Big Mess? construction in English, in which under certain circumstances adjectival expressions appear before the determiner (as in ?that big a mess?), rather than in the normal position between the determiner and noun (?a very big mess?, compare ?*a that big mess?). Empirically, the analysis is superior in coverage to existing treatments.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (UNSPECIFIED) |
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| Additional Information: | Published proceedings: _not provided_ - Notes: |
| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Language and Linguistics, Department of |
| SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
| Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
| Date Deposited: | 30 Apr 2015 10:19 |
| Last Modified: | 23 Sep 2022 19:14 |
| URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/13639 |
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