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A0 – The Lexical Status of Adjectives
Edited by Phoevos Panagiotidis and Moreno Mitrović
[Language Faculty and Beyond 17] 2022
► pp. 1–11

Introduction

To adjectives, lexical categories, and this volume

| University of Cyprus
| Leibniz Centre for General Linguistics (ZAS) | Bled Institute
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.A brief categorial history of A0
    • 2.1Baker (2003)
    • 2.2From Chomsky (1970) to Mitrović & Panagiotidis (2020) – and this volume
  • 3.A brief categorial future of A0 : The road ahead
  • 4.An overview of the volume
    • 4.1Part One: Adjectives as a lexical category, and beyond
      • 4.1.1Chapter 2: Struckmeier on Universal and language-specific aspects of adjectives
      • 4.1.2Chapter 3: Larson on Adjectives, case, and concord
      • 4.1.3Chapter 4: Arsenijević on Adjectives as a lexical category
    • 4.2Part Two: Adjectives and the nominal domain
      • 4.2.1Chapter 5: Adenuga on Nominal attributive modifiers in Ògè
      • 4.2.2Chapter 6: Hu on Property, possession, and adjectives
    • 4.3Part Three: Adjectives and the interfaces
      • 4.3.1Chapter 7: Nitschke on the Extended projection of German adjectives
      • 4.3.2Chapter 8: Mitrović on First-phase semantics
  • References
Published online: 24 November 2022
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