
Syntax of Dutch: Adjectives and Adjective Phrases
Hans Broekhuis(Author)
Pallas Publications (Publisher)
Published on 17. April 2013
Book
Hardback
634 pages
978-90-8964-549-4 (ISBN)
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Description
The Syntax of Dutch will be published in at least seven volumes in the period 2012-2016 and aims at presenting a synthesis of the currently available syntactic knowledge of Dutch. It is primarily concerned with language description and not with linguistic theory, and provides support to all researchers interested in matters relating to the syntax of Dutch, including advanced students of language and linguistics. The volume Adjectives and Adjective Phrases discusses the internal make-up as well as the distribution of adjective phrases. Topics that will be covered include: complementation and modification of adjective phrases; comparative and superlative formation; the attributive, predicative and adverbial uses of adjective phrases. Special attention is paid to the so-called partitive genitive construction and the adverbial use of past/passive participles and infinitives.
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"This project is, by all measures, an extraordinary one, both in conception and execution. To a remarkable degree the Syntax of Dutch project manages to harmonize demands of depth and breadth. In part this appears to be due to the highly systematic approach followed. I believe the Syntax of Dutch project will ultimately become a model for comprehensive grammatical description in the years ahead." - Richard Larson, Professor of Linguistics at University of Stony BrookMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Academic
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
0 illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 45 mm
Weight
1127 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-8964-549-4 (9789089645494)
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Person
Hans Broekhuis is a researcher on the Variationist Linguistics Language Portal at the Meertens Instituut, part of the Dutch academy of sciences (KNAW). He has published with colleagues many volumes in the Syntax of Dutch series, and has co-edited Broekhuis, H. & R. Vogel. (2013) Linguistic Derivations and Filtering. Minimalism and Optimality Theory (Equinox, 2013), and a monograph entitled Derivations and evaluations. Object shift in the Germanic languages (Mouton de Gruyter, 2008)
Content
Abbreviations and symbols, Preface and acknowledgments 1. General introduction 2. Main objective 3. Intended readership 4. Object of description 5. Organization of the material 6. History of the project and future prospects 7. Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1 Adjectives: characteristics and classification Chapter 2 Projection of adjective phrases I: Complementation Chapter 3 Projection of adjective phrases II: Modification Chapter 4 Projection of adjective phrases III: Comparison Chapter 5 Attributive use of the adjective phrase Chapter 6 Predicative use of the adjective phrase Chapter 7 The partitive genitive construction Chapter 8 Adverbial use of the adjective phrase Chapter 9 Participles and infinitives: their adjectival use Chapter 10 Special Constructions Glossary, Subject index, References.