商品簡介
Collateral adjectives in English, explains Kochiishi (English linguistics, Jissen Women's U., Tokyo), are Latinate adjectives collateral to English nouns; his examples of noun:adjective pairs include spring:vernal, cow:bovine, father:paternal, heart:cardiac, and church:ecclesiastical. He says they pose many interesting problems, one of which is that most English speakers have not the slightest idea what words like brachial, ferric, or sylvan mean; another is that they almost all have more familiar synonyms--fatherly, icy, daily--and that many of the nouns themselves can serve as adjectives without alteration--spring equinox, iron sword. He looks at them in relation to English morphology, syntax and semantics, lexicography, and sociolinguistic and contrastive studies. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Tetsuya Koshiishi is professor of English Linguistics in the Department of English Literature at Jissen Women’s University, Tokyo, with research interests in English morphology, lexicography, English historical linguistics, lexical semantics, and contrastive linguistics. He has also been engaged in editing and writing entries for several students’ English-Japanese dictionaries published in Japan.
