تحليل ساختي - ساختواژي كاربردهاي ويژه صفت

A Constituent Morphological Analysis on the Idiosyncratic Use of Adjectives

Substitution of adjectives for nouns is the statement given by traditional grammar to explain such an idiosyncratic use of adjectives. This paper aims to study the constituent structure of this usage. The claim is that the basis of this structure is a syntactic phrase, which after some (postlexical) processes, the adjective find itself in the distributional context of the noun omitted; therefore, adjective can be considered as the relic of that syntactic phrase. It is shown that the process involved is very generative in contemporary spoken Persian and it is not confined to adjectives but to any phrases acted as adjectives to nouns. Hence the traditional statement saying "class shift due to changing the syntactic slot" is denied.