The aim of this paper is to discuss denominaled adjectives in light of recent advances in linguistic theory and make the following claims about their structure, morphology and semantics.
on the fundamental assumption in the framework of Distributed Morphology (Halle and Marantz, 1993;Marantz, 1997Marantz, , 2001) that there is no component dedicated to word formation, this paper defends the view that the -ed adjectives in question are denominal and argues that bases fored are reduced nominal structures, nP.