Hello, I am conducting research on the syntactic and semantic properties of prenominal and postnominal adjectives in English, Polish, and Spanish. I am particularly interested in:
I would appreciate any recommendations for relevant literature, studies, or corpora that explore this topic. If you have worked on a similar issue, I would love to hear your insights!
Hans Kronning
Some parameters worth investigating are:
- the relative length (in syllables) of the prenominal and postnominal adjectives
- the position of the prenominal and postnominal adjectives in relation to the information structure (topic, comment and focus) of the utterance
- the definiteness or the indefiniteness of the NP with prenominal and postnominal adjectives
- the different signification of prenominal and postnominal adjectives
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Patrizia Giampieri
Hello, as far as corpora are concerned, you can investigate English prenominal and postnominal adjectives in the BNC or the COCA:
https://www.english-corpora.org/bnc/
https://www.english-corpora.org/coca/
As for Spanish, you can consult the CAES and CORPES:
https://galvan.usc.es/caes
https://www.rae.es/corpes/
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