pISSN: 1598-3293
영어영문학연구, Vol.59 no.1 (2017)
pp.227~249
On the Order of Premodifying Adjectives in English
Despite the long-standing belief that premodifying adjectives in English are strictly ordered, recent studies have discovered these four observational facts: ① They have preferred ordering; ② Some adjectives allow ordering variation among themselves, but others do not; ③ Non-intersective adjectives show strange distribution, occur- ring before and after intersective ones; ④ If two instances of the same adjective occur consecutively, the s-level one precedes the i-level one. In order to explicate the four properties, I critically review representative previous studies, especially, Cinque (1994, 2010, 2014) and Scontras, et al. (2016), and argue that they are far from satisfactory. Instead, I propose the inherence restriction on adjective ordering (IRA): More inherent adjectives are located closer to the head noun. The IRA can explain the observational facts ①, ②, and ④, by assuming that inherence is measured by sustainablity of the property denoted by an adjective. What about ③? Adopting distributed morphology, I show that the distinction between NP-internal and NP-external adjectives is sufficient to explain it.
형용사 어순 제약,고유성제약,지속성,명사구 내부 형용사,명사구 외부 형용사