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	1–26
Part I. Syntax
Syntactic positions of attributive adjectives Nadira Aljović	29–52
The syntactic differences between long and short forms of Russian adjectives Leonard H. Babby	53–84
The name of the adjective Hagit Borer and Isabelle Roy	85–114
Adjectives in Mandarin Chinese: The rehabilitation of a much ostracized category Waltraud Paul	115–152
Part II. Semantics
Comparisons of similarity and difference Peter Alrenga	155–186
Characterizing superlative quantifiers Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach	187–232
Superlative adjectives and the licensing of non-modal infinitival subject relatives Petra Sleeman	233–264
Sentential complementation of adjectives in French Catherine Léger	265–306
Spanish adjectives within bounds Rafael Marín	307–332
Languages index	333–334
Subject index	335–336

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Subjects

Linguistics

Theoretical linguistics

Syntax

Generative linguistics

Semantics

BIC Subject: CFK – Grammar, syntax

BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 2009053860 | Marc record