Adjectives : formal analyses in syntax and semantics /
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 Chi...
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| Ngôn ngữ: | Tiếng Anh |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub.,
©2010.
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| Loạt: | Linguistik aktuell ;
Bd. 153. |
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Mục lục:
- 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.