Adjectives

Formal analyses in syntax and semantics

Editors

Patricia Cabredo Hofherr | CNRS / University of Paris 8

Ora Matushansky | University of Utrecht

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Adjectives are comparatively less well studied than the lexical categories of nouns and verbs. The present volume brings together studies in the syntax and semantics of adjectives. Four of the contributions investigate the syntax of adjectives in a variety of languages (English, French, Mandarin Chinese, Modern Hebrew, Russian, Spanish, and Serbocroatian). The theoretical issues explored include: the syntax of attributive and predicative adjectives, the syntax of nominalized adjectives and the identification of adjectives as a distinct lexical category in Mandarin Chinese. A further four contributions examine different aspects in the semantics of adjectives in English, French, and Spanish, dealing with superlatives, comparatives, and aspect in adjectives. This volume will be of interest to researchers and students in syntax, formal semantics, and language typology.

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 153] 2010. vii, 335 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/la.153

Table of Contents

Adjectives: An introduction

Patricia Cabredo Hofherr | pp. 1–26

Part I. Syntax

Syntactic positions of attributive adjectives

Nadira Aljović | pp. 29–52

The syntactic differences between long and short forms of Russian adjectives

Leonard H. Babby | pp. 53–84

The name of the adjective

Hagit Borer and Isabelle Roy | pp. 85–114

Adjectives in Mandarin Chinese: The rehabilitation of a much ostracized category

Waltraud Paul | pp. 115–152

Part II. Semantics

Comparisons of similarity and difference

Peter Alrenga | pp. 155–186

Characterizing superlative quantifiers

Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach | pp. 187–232

Superlative adjectives and the licensing of non-modal infinitival subject relatives

Petra Sleeman | pp. 233–264

Sentential complementation of adjectives in French

Catherine Léger | pp. 265–306

Spanish adjectives within bounds

Rafael Marín | pp. 307–332

Languages index | pp. 333–334

Subject index | pp. 335–336

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