Long adjectival inflection and specificity in Serbo-Croatian
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This article is concerned with the interpretation of noun phrases containing short and long adjectives in Serbo-Croatian. It is argued that the short/long distinction among Serbo-Croatian adjectives correlates with the semantic opposition between the non-specific and specific readings, respectively. The article further investigates the syntactic source of the long inflection, proposing that an AP occupying the Specifier of a nominal functional head will appear with an additional mark, i.e. a long inflection. Finally, the morphological parallelism between the inflection on pronouns and that on adjectives is discussed, suggesting that both are linked to the same nominal projection &endash; possibly DP.
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Nadira Aljovic, “Long adjectival inflection and specificity in Serbo-Croatian”, Recherches linguistiques de Vincennes, 31 | 2002, 27-42.
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Nadira Aljovic, “Long adjectival inflection and specificity in Serbo-Croatian”, Recherches linguistiques de Vincennes [Online], 31 | 2002, Online since 06 June 2005, connection on 23 March 2025. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/rlv/351; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/rlv.351
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