Adjectival prefixes: a heterogeneous group
Abstract
This article discusses one of the identified classes of prefixes in Spanish, adjectival prefixes. This class displays a behaviour that is exceptional among prefixes, including their phonology and semantics. We argue that the class is actually heterogeneous, and that at least four subclasses must be differentiated inside them. Their exceptional properties, as well as their linear ordering and category selection, follow if they are treated as specifiers of functional projections that belong to the extended sequence of a nominal base.
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