Eintrag

Titel

Adjectives. Formal analyses in syntax and semantics

Personen

Patricia Cabredo Hofherr, Ora Matushansky

Jahr

2010

Typ

Sammelband

Verlag

John Benjamins Publishing Co.

Ort

Amsterdam, Philadelphia

Reihe

Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today

Band

153

Sprache(n)

Deutsch
Serbokroatisch

Schlagwörter

Adjektiv
Semantik
Syntax

Beiträge

• Aljović: Syntactic positions of attributive adjectives

Abstract

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.

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