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However, adnominals can point to a determiner head, if the latter is part of an adverbial<br />

adject (@>A) and does not function as adnominal itself:<br />

(um professor ((um tanto) iconoclasta )))<br />

DET N DET DET N <br />

@>N @NPHR @>N @>A @N<<br />

The distinction between modifier and (valency bound) argument adjects in ap’s can be<br />

made visible by an isolation test. Modifier adjects can, argument adject cannot be<br />

isolated when substituting the ap by an interrogative dummy, ‘o que’ or ‘como’:<br />

o que era de corpo e ânimo? velho<br />

o que era de vocação? socialista<br />

o que era como mais ninguém? iconoclasta<br />

?o que o pai era da guerra? receoso<br />

*o que a região era em ouro? rico<br />

*o que foi do que a última vez? pior<br />

o que ela era demais? tímida<br />

o que era mais do que eu? velho<br />

Note that the last example tests for modifier status of ‘mais do que eu’ with regard to<br />

the ap-head ‘velho’, not against the argument status of the KOMP< constituent (‘do que<br />

eu’), which is an argument of ‘mais’, not ‘velho’, as can be seen from the fact that<br />

‘velho do que eu’ without ‘mais’ is agrammatical. What makes the case difficult is the<br />

fact that ‘mais do que eu’ is a disjunct pre-adject modifier of ‘velho’. The @KOMP<<br />

constituent itself, then, is an adverbial post-adject, of ‘mais’, inside the larger preadject:<br />

mais velho do que eu<br />

ADV @>A ADJ @HEAD @KOMP<<br />

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