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Aristar, Anthony – 1987
A discussion of the sources of certain language universals argues that adjective/noun constructions pattern similarly to genitive/noun and relative-noun constructions because they are typical diachronic sources for adjectivals, and that relatives and genitives have the same diachronic source and thus the same set of synchronic behavior. It is also…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Form Classes (Languages)