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Chapter I Introduction: the concept of the description of the as a predicative expression...... 11 I.1. The research paradigm: basic assumptions and the conceptual and terminological resources for a - model ...... 11 I.2. The aim of the description...... 13 I.3. Reasons for the choice of ...... 14 I.4. The adjective: theoretical preliminaries ...... 15 I.4.1. “Adjectivity”: dilemmas and resolutions...... 15 I.4.2. Surface-syntactic characteristics of : controversial and uncontroversial points...... 17 I.4.3. Hierarchisation of the adjective’s syntagmatic positions: a contribution to the discussion ...... 19 I.4.4. Role of morphological and surface-syntactic criteria in the determination of the range of the adjectival lexeme class..... 20 I.5. Empirical data ...... 21 I.5.1. Semantic and syntactic constraints on the object described ...... 21 1.6. Methodological investigation...... 22 I.6.1. Limited effectiveness of the surface analysis of organisation at the content level...... 22 I.6.2. The place of introspection in semantic studies ...... 24 I.6.3. Methods applied...... 25

Chapter II The adjective as a predicative expression...... 41 II. 1. Categorical differentiation of the system of lexical exponents of the predicate...... 41 II.2. Formal representation types of predication: the predicating vs. sentence-building predication...... 44 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 ...... 46 II.4. The syntagmatic position of evaluative and parametric adjectives and the interpretive paradigm of PASes achieved through them...... 51 8 Table of Contents

II.5. The conceptual structure of evaluative and parametric adjectives...... 56 II.6. Adjectival transpositional derivatives (AdjTD) ...... 60 II.6.1. Denominal adjectives as AdjTD...... 60 II.6.2. Transposability of material adjectives...... 65 II.6.3. Possessive adjectives and their homonymic AdjTDs...... 67 II.6.4. Communicative tasks of the syntactic derivation of adjectives ...... 69 II. 6.5. Non-predicativeness of AdjTDs ...... 76 II.7. Conclusions...... 77

Chapter III The with an adjective as a means to formalise propositional contents ...... 97 III. 1. Scope over which surface propositional contents are manifested...... 97 III.1.1. The concept of textual undercoding and overcoding ...... 97 III.1.2. Types of textual undercoding and overcoding ...... 98 III.1.3 Types of surface reduction operations: compression and condensation...... 99 III. 1.4. Pleonasmicity as sender’s redundancy: the absolute pleonasm and the relative pleonasm...... 102 III.2. Pleonastic noun phrases with an adjective and their quasi-pleonastic counterparts ...... 105 III. 3. Polyadjectivity in monopropositional noun phrases: the result of explicative-disintegrative PAS formalisation ...... 116 III.3.1. Specifics of the formalisation of propositional contents based on predicates represented by “relational” (“relative”) adjectives ...... 116 III.3.2. The Principle of Presumed Absorption ...... 121 III.3.3. The “facultative comma” as the exponent of the scope of exteriorisation in explicative-disintegrative constructions...... 123 III.3.4. Explicative-disintegrative nominalisation of PAS founded on causative predicates ...... 125 III.4. Co-selection of jointly nominalised PAS in polypropositional noun phrases (PNP)...... 126 III.4.1. Criteria for the classification of PNPs...... 128 III.4.2. Characteristics of internally integrated PNPs ...... 133 III.5. Conclusions...... 143 Table of Contents 9

Chapter IV The noun phrase with an adjective as the exponent of an adjunctive proposition ...... 163 IV.1. Factors determining the inclusion of non-sentence-forming predication in the sentence form ...... 163 IV.2. The functions of evaluation in derivative propositions...... 180 IV.2.1. Implied evaluation and supplementary evaluation ...... 180 IV.2.2. Projected evaluation...... 182 IV.2.3. The interaction of evaluative semes...... 188 IV.3. Insufficiently defined coherence in derivative propositions...... 192 IV.4. Conclusions...... 197

Final Remarks ...... 205 List of Abbreviations and Symbols ...... 209 Bibliography ...... 211 Name Index...... 231 Index of Terms ...... 235