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Chapter I Introduction: the concept of the description of the adjective as a predicative expression |
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I.1 The research paradigm: basic assumptions and the conceptual and terminological resources for a predicate-argument syntax model |
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I.2 The aim of the description |
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I.3 Reasons for the choice of subject |
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I.4 The adjective: theoretical preliminaries |
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I.4.1 "Adjectivity": dilemmas and resolutions |
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I.4.2 Surface-syntactic characteristics of adjectives: controversial and uncontroversial points |
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I.4.3 Hierarchisation of the adjective's syntagmatic positions: a contribution to the discussion |
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I.4.4 Role of morphological and surface-syntactic criteria in the determination of the range of the adjectival lexeme class |
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I.5.1 Semantic and syntactic constraints on the object described |
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I.6 Methodological investigation |
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I.6.1 Limited effectiveness of the surface analysis of organization at the content level |
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I.6.2 The place of introspection in semantic studies |
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Chapter II The adjective as a predicative expression |
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II.1 Categorical differentiation of the system of lexical exponents of the predicate |
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II.2 Formal representation types of predication: the predicating vs. sentence-building predication |
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II.3 The adnominal position and the attributive position of the adjectival predicative expression (AdjPE) as communicatively relevant ways of differentiating the structuralisation of propositional contents |
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II.4 The syntagmatic position of evaluative and parametric adjectives and the interpretive paradigm of PASes achieved through them |
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II.5 The conceptual structure of evaluative and parametric adjectives |
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II.6 Adjectival transpositional derivatives (AdjTD) |
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II.6.1 Denominal adjectives as AdjTD |
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II.6.2 Transposability of material adjectives |
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II.6.3 Possessive adjectives and their homonymic AdjTDs |
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II.6.4 Communicative tasks of the syntactic derivation of adjectives |
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II.6.5 Non-predicativeness of AdjTDs |
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Chapter III The noun phrase with an adjective as a means to formalise propositional contents |
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III.1 Scope over which surface propositional contents are manifested |
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III.1.1 The concept of textual undercoding and overcoding |
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III.1.2 Types of textual undercoding and overcoding |
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III.1.3 Types of surface reduction operations: compression and condensation |
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III.1.4 Pleonasmicity as sender's redundancy: the absolute pleonasm and the relative pleonasm |
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III.2 Pleonastic noun phrases with an adjective and their quasi-pleonastic counterparts |
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III.3 Polyadjectivity in monopropositional noun phrases: the result of explicative-disintegrative PAS formalisation |
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III.3.1 Specifics of the formalisation of propositional contents based on predicates represented by "relational" ("relative") adjectives |
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III.3.2 The Principle of Presumed Absorption |
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III.3.3 The "facultative comma" as the exponent of the scope of exteriorisation in explicative-disintegrative constructions |
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III.3.4 Explicative-disintegrative nominalisation of PAS founded on causative predicates |
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III.4 Co-selection of jointly nominalised PAS in polypropositional noun phrases (PNP) |
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III.4.1 Criteria for the classification of PNPs |
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III.4.2 Characteristics of internally integrated PNPs |
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Chapter IV The noun phrase with an adjective as the exponent of an adjunctive proposition |
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IV.1 Factors determining the inclusion of non-sentence-forming predication in the sentence form |
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IV.2 The functions of evaluation in derivative propositions |
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IV.2.1 Implied evaluation and supplementary evaluation |
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IV.2.2 Projected evaluation |
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IV.2.3 The interaction of evaluative semes |
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IV.3 Insufficiently defined coherence in derivative propositions |
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| Final Remarks |
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| List of Abbreviations and Symbols |
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| Bibliography |
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| Name Index |
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| Index of Terms |
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