ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses deadjectival verbs without an overt verbalising suffix. It is argued that the presence of a prefix in the parasynthetic subclass signals the presence of PredP in its internal structure; this has the effect of syntactically defining parasynthetic deadjectival verbs in a systematic way as dynamic change of state verbs where the change is predicated from the internal argument. When deadjectival verbs in -a lack a prefix, PredP is missing, and this has the effect that syntax does not fully define how the base is integrated into the verb, producing at least two subclasses of verbs unattested in parasynthesis: change of state predicates where the external argument or an implicit entity undergoes the relevant change, and attributive stative predicates not involving any change.
