Title: Adjectives : formal analyses in syntax and semantics /
Authors: Hoffher, Patricia Cabredo, 1970-; Matushansky, Ora.
Publisher: John Benjamins Pub.,
Year: 2010
Subjects: English language Adjective; English language Syntax; Semantics; Bijvoeglijke naamwoorden.; Syntaxis.; Semantiek.
Contents: Adjectives: an introduction / Patricia Cabredo Hofherr -- Syntactic positions of attributive adjectives / Nadira Aljović -- The Syntactic differences between long and short forms of Russian adjectives / Leonard H. Babby -- The name of the adjective / Hagit Borer & Isabelle Roy -- Adjectives in Mandarin Chinese: The rehabilitation of a much ostracized category / Waltraud Paul -- Comparisons of similarity and difference / Peter Alrenga -- Characterizing superlative quantifiers / Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach -- Superlative adjectives and the licensing of non-modal infinitival subject relatives / Petra Sleeman -- Sentential complementation of adjectives in French / Catherine Léger -- Spanish adjectives within bounds / Rafael Marín.