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Adjectives and Adverbs
Syntax, Semantics, and Discourse
Louise McNally and Christopher Kennedy
374 pages
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Includes line diagrams throughout
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234x156mm
978-0-19-921162-3
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Paperback
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27 March 2008
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- Cutting-edge research on a subject of great current interest
- Written by leading scholars worldwide
- Thematically coherent
- Designed to be useful in graduate courses
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 positions of adjectives and adverbs in nominal and verbal projections; and the fine-grained semantics of different subclasses of adverbs and adverbs. Its goals are to provide a comprehensive vision of the linguistically significant structural and interpretive properties of adjectives and adverbs, to highlight the similarities between these two categories, and to signal the
importance of a careful and detailed integration of lexical and compositional semantics.
The editors open the book with an overview of current research before introducing and contextualizing the remaining chapters. The work is aimed at scholars and advanced students of syntax, semantics, formal pragmatics, and discourse. It will also appeal to researchers in philosophy, psycholinguistics, and language acquisition interested in the syntax and semantics of adjectives and adverbs. Readership: The work is aimed at scholars and advanced students of syntax, semantics, formal pragmatics, and discourse in linguistics and philosophy; it will also interest reserachers in psycholinguistics and language
acquisition.
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Louise McNally, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, and Christopher Kennedy, University of Chicago Contributors:
Olivier Bonami, University of Paris, IV-Sorbonne
Violeta Demonte, Madrid Autonomous University
Jenny Doetjes, Leiden University Center for Linguistics
Daniele Godard, University of Paris 7
Graham Katz, Stanford University
Christopher Kennedy, University of Chicago
Richard Larson, Stony Brook University
Beth Levin, Stanford University
Louise McNally, Pompeu Fabra University
Marcin Morzycki, Michigan State
University
Christopher Piñón, Budapest
Peter Svenonius, University of Tromsø
Gina Taranto, H5 Technologies
Adam Wyner, University of Liverpool
Hiroko Yamakido, Lawrence University
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"In sum, the articles in this book offer an excellent reflection of the current state of the field, even without aiming at comprehensive coverage. All of the authors take great care in laying out their data and applying to them a standard series of tests for grammaticality, distinctness of readings, coherency in discourse, and entailment, reflecting excellent standards of empirical argumentation." - Regine Eckardt, University of Göttingen, writing for Project Muse "Another pleasant feature of the overall collection is that all of the authors develop their analyses against a range of background theories in (minimalist) syntax, (truth-conditional) semantics, and compatible pragmatic frameworks that, though all different in focus,
could optimistically be viewed as belonging to one homogeneous paradigm. This allows the reader to contrast hypotheses of different chapters with each other. The differences that at times arise from such comparisons will arouse the readers interest in the topic." - Regine Eckardt, University of Göttingen, writing for Project Muse "...hold[s] interest for semanticists, syntacticians and other theoretical linguists alike..." - Aniko Csirmaz, Lingustics
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1: Louise McNally and Christopher Kennedy: Introduction
2: Peter Svenonius: The Position of Adjectives and Other Phrasal Modifiers in the Decomposition of DP
3: Richard Larson and Hiroko Yamakido: Ezafe and the Deep Position of Nominal Modifiers
4: Violeta Demonte: Meaning-Form Correlations and Adjective Position in Spanish
5: marcin Morzycki: Nonrestrictive Modifiers in Nonparenthetical Positions
6: Jenny Doetjes: Adjectives and Degree Modification
7: Chris Kennedy and Beth Levin: Measure of Change: The Adjectival Core of Degree Achievements
8: Christopher Piñón: Aspectual Composition With Degrees
9: Graham Katz: Manner Modification of State Verbs
10: Adam Zachary Wyner: Towards Flexible Types With Constraints for Manner and Factive Adverbs
11: Olivier Bonami and Daniele Godard: Lexical Semantics and Pragmatics of Evaluative Adverbs
12: Gina Taranto: Discourse Adjectives
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