McNally & Kennedy

Gebundenes Buch

ADJECTIVES & ADVERBS OSTL C

Beschreibung

This book brings together research on the semantics and pragmatics of adjectives and adverbs. It integrates lexical and compositional semantics and provides a full account of the structural and interpretive properties of adjectives and adverbs. It will interest students in linguistics and philosophy at graduate level and above.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP UK
• Seitenzahl: 372
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. März 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 722g
• ISBN-13: 9780199211616
• ISBN-10: 0199211612
• Artikelnr.: 24764379