P. H. Matthews

The Positions of Adjectives in English

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This book explores the uses of adjectives in different constructions, and of the problems that arise in their analysis, both in terms of syntactic theory and philosophy of grammar. Professor Matthews also examines a variety of other issues relating to individual adjective positions, including the basic structure of noun phrases and the justification for binary constituents; the status of the copular and its uses in the progressive; the indeterminacy of what were oncedescribed as raised constructions; and the function of postmodifying adjectives and adjective phrases in relation to others.The book will be of interest to graduate students and r… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-19-150380-1
EAN: 9780191503801
Produktnummer: 18391134
Verlag: Oxford University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Seitenangabe: 288 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 1'656 KB

Über den Autor

P. H. Matthews is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. He has formerly held positions at Bangor University and the University of Reading, and has been an Honorary Member of the Linguistic Society of America since 1994. His many books include The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics (3rd edn; OUP 2014), Syntactic Relations: A Critical Survey (CUP 2007), Linguistics: AVery Short Introduction (OUP 2003), and A Short History of Structural Linguistics (CUP 2001).