Projecting the Adjective : The Syntax and Semantics of Gradability and Comparison

✍ Scribed by Christopher Kennedy

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Year: 1999
Tongue: English
Leaves: 259
Series: Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics Ser.
Edition: 1
Category: Library

⬇ Acquire This Volume

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

✦ Subjects

Grammar, Comparative and general -- Adjective. ; Grammar, Comparative and general -- Gradation. ; Comparison (Grammar) ; Semantics.

📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES

The Syntactic Structure of Hungarian (27

📁 The Syntactic Structure of Hungarian (27) (SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS)

✍ Stephen R. Anderson (editor), Katalin F. Kiss (editor) 📂 Library 📅 1994 🏛 Brill Academic Pub 🌐 English

Hungarian syntax has played a vital, albeit much debated role in linguistic theory since the early 1980s. Volume 27 of "Syntax and Semantics" is the result of a project on Hungarian syntax launched in the early 1980s at the Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Science

Adjectives and Adverbs: Syntax, Semantic

📁 Adjectives and Adverbs: Syntax, Semantics, and Discourse

✍ Louise McNally, Christopher Kennedy 📂 Library 📅 2008 🏛 Oxford University Press, USA 🌐 English

In this volume leading researchers present new work on the semantics and pragmatics of adjectives and adverbs, and their interfaces with syntax. Its concerns include the semantics of gradability; the relationship between adjectival scales and verbal aspect; the relationship between meaning and the p

Adjectives: Formal Analyses in Syntax an

📁 Adjectives: Formal Analyses in Syntax and Semantics

✍ Patricia Cabredo Hofherr (ed.), Ora Matushansky (ed.) 📂 Library 📅 2010 🏛 John Benjamins Publishing Company 🌐 English

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

Recent Advances in the Syntax and Semant

📁 Recent Advances in the Syntax and Semantics of Tense, Aspect and Modality

✍ Louis de Saussure (editor); Jacques Moeschler (editor); Genoveva Puskás (editor) 📂 Library 📅 2007 🏛 De Gruyter Mouton 🌐 English

It is a fact that tense, aspect and modality together form one of the most recurring and active areas of research in contemporary syntax and semantics, as well as in other disciplines of linguistics. A large number of syntactic and semantic phenomena are concerned by the temporal-aspectual-modal

The Semantics of Gradability, Vagueness,

📁 The Semantics of Gradability, Vagueness, and Scale Structure

✍ Elena Castroviejo, Louise McNally, Galit Weidman Sassoon 📂 Library 📅 2018 🏛 Springer International Publishing 🌐 English

This volume is the first to focus specifically on experimental studies of the semantics of gradability, scale structure and vagueness. It presents support for and challenges to current formal analyses of these phenomena in view of experimentally collected data, highlighting the ways sem

Positions and Interpretations: German Ad

📁 Positions and Interpretations: German Adverbial Adjectives at the Syntax-Semantics Interface

✍ Martin Schäfer 📂 Library 📅 2013 🏛 de Gruyter Mouton 🌐 English

The structural and semantic properties of adverbials represent a still poorly understood area of sentential syntax and semantics in Germanic languages. The volume gives a detailed overview of the system of adverbial adjectives in German, linking the different types of adverbial usages to differen