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

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

List of contents

Chapter 1 Gradable Adjectives; Chapter 2 Projecting the Adjective; Chapter 3 Polar Opposition and the Ontology of Comparison; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index;

About the author

Christopher Kennedy

Summary

This text investigates the core meaning and syntactic distribution of gradable adjectives: adjectives such as "long", "short", "bright" and "dim", with respect to which objects can be ordered and compared.

Product details

• Authors: Christopher Kennedy
• Publisher: Routledge
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.03.1999
• EAN: 9780815333494
• ISBN: 978-0-8153-3349-4
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 222 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 467 g
• Series: Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics