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    Relational adjectives at the syntax/morphology interface in Romanian and Spanish
    (2010) Marchis, Mihaela Adriana; Alexiadou, Artemis (Prof. Dr.)
    This thesis, as indicated by its title, investigates the morpho-syntactic and syntactic properties of Relational adjectives at the Syntax/Morphology interface. More concretely, I provide an analysis of a special case of morpho-syntactic derivation which represents a puzzle for Distributed Morphology i.e., the case of Relational adjectives which have the semantic interpretation of nouns while exhibiting the formal properties of adjectives. The theoretical importance of this work is that it provides support for the idea that derivation and compounding represent cases of morphology-as-syntax. Relational adjectives are syntactically explored from a micro-dimension as underlying nouns to a macro-dimension as compounding.