From Noun to Evaluative Adjective: Conversion or Debonding? Dutch Top and Its Equivalents in German KU Leuven
© Society for Germanic Linguistics 2015. In this study, we address the ways in which nouns can give rise to new adjectives in Dutch and German. More specifically, the focus is on words with an evaluative meaning that can be used in a wide range of morphological and syntactic constructions in recent (and informal) language. For example, the German noun Hammer 'hammer' can be used in Hammervorstellung 'very good performance' or hammer film ...