ISHIDA Takashi    Department   Hiroshima shudo University  The Faculty of Humanities and Human Sciences    Position   Associate Professor
Date	2021/05/09
Presentation Theme	"Why Does Contrast Allow Relational Adjectives to Be Used Predicatively? A Qualia Structure-Based Account"
Conference	ELSJ 14th International Spring Forum 2021
Promoters	English Linguistic Society of Japan
Conference Type	International
Presentation Type	Speech (General)
Contribution Type	Collaborative
Venue	Zoom online
Publisher and common publisher	Takashi Ishida and Ryohei Naya
Details	Relational Adjectives (RAs) in English are known as attributive-only modifiers, whose function is to classify their modifying nouns. However, previous studies have pointed out that RAs can be used predicatively in certain contrastive contexts. This study pays particular attention to the classificatory function of RAs and aims to answer this question by arguing that contrast contributes to identifying the role of the qualia structures of the head nouns which should be specified by the stranded RAs, giving crucial hints to recover the deleted head nouns.