Adjectives derived from verbs in German and Serbian and the possibility of grading tmen
Abstract
Using a huge corpus, the paper analyzes the possibility or impossibility of adjectives derived from verbs being graded, that is, expressed in the form of a comparative. Taking the Serbian and German linguistic systems into account, the author searches for an answer to the question whether such adjectives in each of these systems belong to the class of relative or absolute adjectives respectively and, if the former is the case, tries to establish the rule defining it. Within the studied subclass of adjectives there are four semantic patterns common for both languages, which, taking the verb as a base on which suffixes are added, form four derivative patterns. In both languages, derivative morphemes in the function of syntactic transposition marking this kind of adjective are determined for each language, with simultaneous determination of correspondents, which do not necessarily belong to the same morphological type.
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2012-06-30
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