Summary Adnominals part 2

Adnominals (part 2)

Adnominals

• All / those / marvellous / Harry Potter books

• 4 slots

– All = predeterminer

• All, both, rather, quite, such, what

– Those = determiner (article)

• Deictics, quantifier det, poss. det, spec gen

– Marvellous = adjective

– HP = embedded NP



All those marvellous Harry Potter books

• Adjectives

– Position of adjective

– Comparative/superlative

– Nominalized adjectives

– Types of adjectives (semantics)

Focus of information

• Julia was carrying a battered old suitcase.

• The suitcase she was carrying was old and battered.

• He had a beautiful smile – his smile was beautiful.

• A sad story – the story is sad

 Attributive (adnominal) and predicative (complement) position