Adjectives and Adverbs

Louise McNally is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. She is the author of The Semantics of the English Existential Construction (Garland, 1997) and co-editor, with Peter Culicover, of Syntax and Semantics 29: The Limits of Syntax (Academic Press, 1998). Her publications include articles on various aspects of adjectival semantics, the compositional semantics of modifiers, and the interface of semantics with syntax and pragmatics.Christopher Kennedy is Associate Professor of Linguistics, University of Chicago. He is the author of Projecting the Adjective: The Syntax and Semantics of Gradability and Comparison (Garland, 1999) and is a General Editor with Chris Barker of the Oxford series Studies in Semantics and Pragmatics. His publications and research investigate various aspects of scalar meaning and syntax, along with other topics pertaining to the syntax-semantics interface.

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.

• 1. Introduction ; 2. The Position of Adjectives and Other Phrasal Modifiers in the Decomposition of DP ; 3. Ezafe and the Deep Position of Nominal Modifiers ; 4. Meaning-Form Correlations and Adjective Position in Spanish ; 5. Nonrestrictive Modifiers in Nonparenthetical Positions ; 6. Adjectives and Degree Modification ; 7. Measure of Change: The Adjectival Core of Degree Achievements ; 8. Aspectual Composition With Degrees ; 9. Manner Modification of State Verbs ; 10. Towards Flexible Types With Constraints for Manner and Factive Adverbs ; 11. Lexical Semantics and Pragmatics of Evaluative Adverbs ; 12. Discourse Adjectives