Adjectives
Subtitle: formal analyses in syntax and semantics
By: edited by Patricia Cabredo-Hofherr, Ora Matushansky.
Contributors: Hoffher, Patricia Cabredo, 1970-; Matushansky, Ora.
Publisher: John Benjamins Pub. Company
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 331
ISBN-13: 9789027255365; 9789027288349
Subjects: English language -- Adjective; English language -- Syntax; Semantics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Adjectives: an introduction / Patricia Cabredo Hofherr; title: Syntactic positions of attributive adjectives / Nadira Aljovic; title: The Syntactic differences between long and short forms of Russian adjectives / Leonard H. Babby; title: The name of the adjective / Hagit Borer & Isabelle Roy; title: Adjectives in Mandarin Chinese: The rehabilitation of a much ostracized category / Waltraud Paul; title: Comparisons of similarity and difference / Peter Alrenga; title: Characterizing superlative quantifiers / Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach; title: Superlative adjectives and the licensing of non-modal infinitival subject relatives / Petra Sleeman; title: Sentential complementation of adjectives in French / Catherine Léger; title: Spanish adjectives within bounds / Rafael Marín.