Cinquean

Adjective

Cinquean (not comparable)

1. Relating to the Italian linguist Guglielmo Cinque.
   • A possible solution is to keep the Cinquean analysis for plain adjectives and modify it so as to accommodate for operator adjectives as well.2006, Alexandra Teodorescu, “Adjective Ordering Restrictions Revisited”, in Donald Baumer, David Montero, Michael Scanlon, editors, Proceedings of the 25th West Coast Conference on Formal...
   • Another difficulty with this approach is that it embodies essentially the Cinquean conception that proved problematic in section 5.3.2. As pointed out there, the nonrestrictive/restrictive contrast seems to cross-cut other semantically based adjective and adverb classes. Thus, even though this is...2008, Marcin Morzycki, “Nonrestrictive modifiers in non-parenthetical positions”, in Louise McNally, Christopher Kennedy, editors, Adjectives and Adverbs: Syntax, Semantics, and Discourse, Oxford...