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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781154903321

Titolo

Adjectives [[electronic resource] ] : formal analyses in syntax and semantics / / edited by Patricia Cabredo Hofherr, Ora Matushansky

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins, 2010

ISBN

1-282-55857-9

9786612558573

90-272-8834-8

Descrizione fisica

331 p

Collana

Linguistik aktuell/Linguistics today ; ; 153

Classificazione

17.50

Altri autori (Persone)

Cabredo HofherrPatricia <1970->

MatushanskyOra

Disciplina

415/.5

Soggetti

English language - Adjective

English language - Syntax

Semantics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.