Collateral Adjectives and Related Issues

This monograph constitutes an example of a meaning-based approach to English morphology, which has far-reaching implications on lexicographical, sociolinguistic, and contrastive studies. Collateral adjectives are Latinate relational adjectives, typically meaning ‘of’ or ‘pertaining to ...’, such as paternal (base noun: father ), vernal (base noun: spring ), etc. The existence of these adjectives poses serious problems to form-based approaches to morphology because of their apparent derivational