Positions of Adjectives in English

Informationen zum Autor P. H. Matthews is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. He has formerly held positions at Bangor University and the University of Reading, and has been an Honorary Member of the Linguistic Society of America since 1994. His many books include The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics (3rd edn; OUP 2014), Syntactic Relations: A Critical Survey (CUP 2007), Linguistics: A Very Short Introduction (OUP 2003), and A Short History of Structural Linguistics (CUP 2001). Klappentext This book is a study of the uses of adjectives in different constructions, and of the problems that arise in their analysis, both in terms of syntactic theory and philosophy of grammar. It draws and builds on previous analyses and offers solutions to a range of issues relating to the position of adjectives in English. Zusammenfassung This book is a study of the uses of adjectives in different constructions, and of the problems that arise in their analysis, both in terms of syntactic theory and philosophy of grammar. It draws and builds on previous analyses and offers solutions to a range of issues relating to the position of adjectives in English. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Introduction 2: Which words are adjectives? 3: Can one position be primary? 4: How the syntax of adjectives has changed 5: Modifiers and determiners 6: Relations between premodifiers 7: Linear and layered dependency 8: Adjectives in extended predicative positions 9: States and occurrences 10: The positions of premodifiers 11: Envoi

Produktdetails

• Autoren: P. H. Matthews
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 27.11.2014
• EAN: 9780199681594
• ISBN: 978-0-19-968159-4
• Seiten: 202
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