Postmodifying Attributive Adjectives in English

The Author: Lars M. Blöhdorn, born in 1976, completed his M.A. studies in English and History at the University of Kiel (Germany) in 2002. He received a Ph.D. in linguistics in 2008 and teaches English linguistics and practical language courses at the University of Kiel. His main interests lie in the syntax and semantics of adjectives, corpus linguistics, second language acquisition, and grammar teaching.

• Contents: Characteristics of English Adjectives – English Adjective Syntax – Language-Universal and Language-Specific Approaches to Adjective Semantics – Light Adjective Phrases – Heavy Adjective Phrases – Adjectives Postmodifying Indefinite Pronouns – An Extended Prague School Approach – The ‘Attributive Postmodification Filter’.