Compound Adjectives with Suffixes in Tibetan: Properties and Qualia Construction

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" Compound Adjectives with Suffixes in Tibetan: Properties and Qualia Construction "
Meng, Wen; Jiang, Di

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	940034
Doc. No	:	LA6d1983nr
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Meng, Wen; Jiang, Di
Title & Author	:	Compound Adjectives with Suffixes in Tibetan: Properties and Qualia Construction [Article]\ Meng, Wen; Jiang, Di
Title of Periodical	:	Himalayan Linguistics
Volume/ Issue Number	:	15/1
Date	:	2016
Abstract	:	This paper discusses the exocenric construction of adjectives NP+AP in Tibetan, and points out that this kind of construction is derived from the lexicalization of phrases. According to the semantic analysis of qualia construction of Generative Lexicon Theory, NP only refers to the source, scope, shape, material and dimension etc. of the properties of AP. Type coercion together with metonymy frequently happens to NP based on AP, which causes the generalization of NP’soriginal meaning, turns NP into the argument of AP, and the whole construction is adjectivalized