A0 – The Lexical Status of Adjectives
Editors
| University of Cyprus
| ZAS, Berlin
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ISBN 9789027257543 | EUR 99.00
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This volume brings together seven eminently original attempts to answer a sorely neglected question: What are adjectives? Although the positioning of adjectives as well as aspects of their semantics have been investigated in depth, their actual status as a lexical category has generally been treated superficially in the linguistic literature.
In this volume, the different approaches to the categorial identity of adjectives put forward include their position in the inventory of lexical categories, the elusive noun-adjective link, the functional entourage of adjectives and their relational character, the role of concord and possession – and so on. The contributors bring different viewpoints as well as a variety of language data into the discussion, from Chinese to Indo-European, and on to Niger-Congo languages.
In this volume, the different approaches to the categorial identity of adjectives put forward include their position in the inventory of lexical categories, the elusive noun-adjective link, the functional entourage of adjectives and their relational character, the role of concord and possession – and so on. The contributors bring different viewpoints as well as a variety of language data into the discussion, from Chinese to Indo-European, and on to Niger-Congo languages.
[Language Faculty and Beyond, 17] Expected October 2022. v, 291 pp. + index
Publishing status: In production
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Introduction: To adjectives, lexical categories, and this volumePhoevos Panagiotidis and Moreno Mitrović | pp. 1–12
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Part I. Adjectives as a lexical category, and beyond
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Universal and language-specific aspects of adjectives: Absolute categories and relational moldsVolker Struckmeier | pp. 15–72
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Adjectives, case and concordRichard Larson | pp. 73–120
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Adjectives as a lexical category: A story of striving for extensionBoban Arsenijević | pp. 121–152
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Part II. Adjectives and the nominal domain
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Nominal Attributive Modifiers (NAMs) in ÒgèPriscilla Adenuga | pp. 155–186
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Property, possession, and adjectivesXuhui Hu | pp. 187–216
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Part III. Adjectives and the interfaces
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On the extended projection of German adjectivesRemo Nitschke | pp. 219–256
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First-phase semanticsMoreno Mitrović | pp. 257–292
Subjects & Metadata
BIC Subject: CFK – Grammar, syntax
BISAC Subject: LAN009060 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax