%0 Journal Article
%T LA NUCLEARIDAD Y LAS CONSTRUCCIONES DE GRADO ADJETIVAS
%A PASTOR
%A ALBERTO
%J RLA. Revista de ling¨¹¨ªstica te¨®rica y aplicada
%D 2008
%I Scientific Electronic Library Online
%R 10.4067/S0718-48832008000100003
%X in this article different criteria will be used in order to identify the head of sequences formed by a degree term and a gradable adjective. we will see how both, degree terms and adjectives, act as heads depending on the criterion being considered. thus, based on a notion of headness according to which the head is the member of a phrase that determines the properties of the phrase and selects the complement, the adjective will be responsible for the properties of the sequence [deg+a], while degree terms will be responsible for semantic and categorial selection inside this sequence. on the other hand, a series of formal arguments will show that degree terms take the adjective as their complement. we will conclude that structure of the sequence [deg+a] is headed by deg and we will use the notion of ¡°extended projection¡± to account for the fact that both degree terms and adjectives are responsible for certain properties of this sequence.
%K degree
%K gradable adjectives
%K headness
%K semantic selection
%K categorial selection
%K extended projection.
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