The freezing points of the (Dutch) adjectival system

This article examines the freezing behavior of displaced constituents that find their origin in a base position within the Extended Adjectival Projection (XAP). On the basis of data from Dutch, it is shown that both constituents in a derived XAP-internal position and constituents in a derived XAP-external position display freezing behavior. An important ingredient of my analysis of the Dutch adjectival system concerns the distinction between “regular” (i.e. structurally non-composite) adjectives (e.g. bang ‘afraid’), on the one hand, and deverbal (i.e. structurally composite) adjectives (e.g.... Mehr ...