Adjectives in Germanic and Romance
By: edited by Petra Sleeman, University of Amsterdam ;  Freek Van de Velde, University of Leuven ; Harry Perridon, University of Amsterdam
Series: Linguistik aktuell/Linguistics today (LA) -- v. 212
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company; Benjamins Publishing Company, John
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9789027255952; 9789027270689
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Germanic languages; Adjective; Romance languages
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The adjective in Germanic and Romance : development, differences, and similarities / Freek Van de Velde, Petra Sleeman & Harry Perridon; title: The adjective-adverb interface in Romance and English / Martin Hummel; title: The position proper of the adjective in Middle English : a result of language contact? / Carola Trips; title: Strong and weak adjectives in Old Swedish / Ulla Stroh-Wollin & Rico Simke; title: The resilient nature of adjectival inflection in Dutch / Freek Van de Velde & Fred Weerman; title: On the properties of attributive phrases in German / Volker Struckmeier & Joost Kremers; title: From participle to adjective in Germanic and Romance / Petra Sleeman; title: The mixed categorial behavior of cel + participle in Romanian / Dana Niculescu; title: Inside and outside; title: before and after : weak and strong adjectives in Icelandic / Alexander Pfaff; title: Adjectives in German and Norwegian : differences in weak and strong inflections / Dorian Roehrs & Marit Julien; title: Cross-linguistic variation in agreement on Germanic predicate adjectives / Erik Schoorlemmer.