"This is the first book that presents a complete empirical description and theoretical analysis of all major classes of derived adjectives in Spanish, both deverbal and denominal. The reader will find here both a detailed empirical description of the syntactic, morphological and semantic properties of derived adjectives in contemporary Spanish and a cohesive Neo-Constructionist analysis of the syntactic and semantic tools that contemporary Spanish has available to build adjectives from other grammatical categories within a Nanosyntactic-oriented framework. In doing so, this book throws light on the nature of adjectives as a grammatical categoy and argues that adjectives are syntactically built by recycling functional heads belonging to other categories. The book will be useful both to researchers in Spanish linguistics or theoretical morphology and to advanced students of Spanish interested in the main ways of building new adjectives through suffixation in this language"--.

• Morphologically Derived Adjectives in Spanish
• Editorial page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Table of contents
• Abbreviations
• Chapter 1. Introduction
  • 1. Goals and overview
    • 1.1 The empirical base
    • 1.2 Overview of the main theoretical argument in the book
  • 2. Nanosyntax: The spell-out procedure
    • 2.1 Phrasal Spell Out
    • 2.2 The Exhaustive Lexicalisation Principle
    • 2.3 The Superset Principle
  • 3. Assumptions about prepositional structures and the projections they introduce
    • 3.1 Prepositional structures
    • 3.2 Assumptions about case
  • 4. The chapters
• Chapter 2. The problem with (complex) adjectives
  • 1. Lexical categories: Essentialist and distributionalist theories
  • 2. The heterogeneity of the adjectival class
  • 3. Against the essentialist definition of adjectives
    • 3.1 Non-universality
    • 3.2 Absence of positive properties and derived character
    • 3.3 Adjectives do not form a natural class in Spanish
  • 4. Consequences for morphological analysis
  • 5. Head recycling and adjective formation
• Chapter 3. Denominal relational adjectives
  • 1. Sketch of the analysis
  • 2. Empirical properties of relational adjectives
    • A. Adjacency to the modified noun
    • B. Non-availability of the prenominal position
    • C. Combination of two relational adjectives in the singular with one noun in the plural
    • D. There must be a lexical difference between affixes for relational adjectives and those for qualifying adjectives
    • E. However, it is frequent that the same affix produces both qualifying and relational adjectives
    • F. And at least there are two affixes that only produce relational adjectives
    • G. Relational adjectives express underspecified relations between two types of entity
    • H. Not being anchored to a dimension, relational adjectives reject degree modification
    • I. Relational adjectives also lack polar oppositions
    • J. Relational adjectives express relations between kinds of entities
    • K. Relational adjectives produce bracketing paradoxes
  • 3. Analysis: Relational adjectives as incomplete prepositional phrases
    • 3.1 The internal syntactic structure of relational adjectives
    • 3.2 The spell out of the structure: Phrasal Spell Out and the Superset
  • 4. Previous analyses of the internal structure of relational adjectives
  • 5. The external syntax of relational adjectives
    • 5.1 Deriving the syntactic position of relational adjectives
    • 5.2 Bracketing paradoxes
    • 5.3 What licenses ‘Singular + Singular = Plural’?
  • Appendix. Do relational adjectives really have double affixal marking?
• Chapter 4. Qualifying denominal adjectives I: Possessive and similitudinal adjectives
  • 1. Overview of the analysis of qualifying denominal adjectives
    • 1.1 On the criteria to determine whether an adjective is qualifying
  • 2. Possessive adjectives: Empirical properties
    • 2.1 What conceptual notions are expressed as possession?
    • 2.2 Conceptual classes of roots in the base and inalienable possession
    • 2.3 Possessive adjectives and other classes of denominal adjectives
    • 2.4 The readings of degree modifiers
    • 2.5 On the existence of privative adjectives
    • 2.6 On the relation between participles and possessive adjectives
  • 3. Analysis of possessive adjectives
    • 3.1 Possessive adjectives and possessive structures
    • 3.2 The relation with the participle
    • 3.3 Underspecification: How it is solved
    • 3.4 Degree readings
  • 4. Similitudinal adjectives: Empirical properties
    • 4.1 Conceptual properties
    • 4.2 Structural properties: Incapacity to combine with negative prefixes
  • 5. Analysis of similitudinal adjectives
    • 5.1 SimP as a vagueness function.
    • 5.2 Similitudinal adjectives as vague predicates
    • 5.3 The absence of negative similitudinal adjectives
• Chapter 5. Qualifying denominal adjectives II: Causative and dispositional denominal adjectives
  • 1. Causative adjectives
    • 1.1 Empirical properties
    • 1.2 Analysis
  • 2. Dispositional denominal adjectives
    • 2.1 Empirical properties
    • 2.2 Qualia structure is involved (at least) in dispositional denominal adjectives
    • 2.3 Analysis: The suffix -ista
  • 3. Why only four conceptual classes of qualifying denominal adjectives?
    • 3.1 Hyper-specific denominal adjectivalisers as evidence for a conceptual distinction
    • 3.2 Against a syntactic decomposition approach
    • 3.3 Against an account based on scalar properties
  • 4. Affixes that produce adjectives of two or more classes
    • 4.1 -oso and -ero
  • 5. A brief note on parasynthesis
• Chapter 6. Deverbal adjectives: Pseudo-relational adjectives
  • 1. Overview of the analysis of deverbal adjectives
  • 2. The problem of non-episodicity
    • 2.1 Deverbal adjectives are (mostly) non-episodic
    • 2.2 Getting non-episodicity for free
  • 3. There are deverbal relational adjectives
  • 4. Deverbal relational adjectives: Description
    • 4.1 Affixes, preferred readings and the availability of qualifying versions
    • 4.2 Argument structure realisation
    • 4.3 On -dor and -nte
  • 5. Pseudo-relational adjectives: Analysis
• Chapter 7. Qualifying deverbal adjectives I: Modal adjectives
  • 1. Overview of the analysis for qualifying deverbal adjectives
  • 2. Against a syntactic decomposition of the three classes of qualifying deverbal adjectives
    • 2.1 The readings can be ordered by their semantic complexity
    • 2.2 However, the syntactic complexity does not increase
  • 3. Modal adjectives: Empirical description
    • 3.1 Internal arguments and accusative case
    • 3.2 Passive and active interpretations: Modal adjectives must be passive
    • 3.3 Argument structure
    • 3.4 Aspectual modification
    • 3.5 Potentiality and obligation
    • 3.6 Other properties
  • 4. Modal adjectives: Analysis
    • 4.1 Against AspP and ModP
    • 4.2 Potentiality and passive construals: Connection with middles
    • 4.3 Deriving the other properties
  • 5. On the difference between -dero and -ble
• Chapter 8. Qualifying deverbal adjectives II: Dispositional and habitual adjectives
  • 1. Dispositional adjectives against habitual adjectives: Animacy
  • 2. Dispositional adjectives: Description and analysis
    • 2.1 Active suffixes
    • 2.2 The suffix -dizo
  • 3. Habitual adjectives: Description and analysis
• Chapter 9. On the episodic reading of participles
  • 1. Overview of the analysis
  • 2. What this chapter is not about
  • 3. Two classes of deverbal adjectives and two classes of deverbal nouns
  • 4. The structure of adjectival participles in -do
    • 4.1 Against Voice in participial formations
    • 4.2 AspP does not involve a specific aspectual value
    • 4.3 The productivity of high adjectival participles
    • 4.4 The affix -do as a prepositional structure
    • 4.5 Pseudo-incorporation of by-phrases
    • 4.6 The verbal nature of low adjectival participles
  • 5. Episodic adjectives with -nte and -dor
    • 5.1 Episodic adjectives with -nte
    • 5.2 Episodic readings with -dor
• Chapter 10. Conclusions and further research paths
  • 1. Main conclusions in the book
  • 2. The path forward
    • 2.1 The position of adjectives and the position of prepositional structures
    • 2.2 Agreement, adjectives and determiners
    • 2.3 Affix selection
    • 2.4 Parasynthesis, theme vowels and other current mysteries
• References
• Index