1st Edition

Syntax of Dutch: Adjectives and Adjective Phrases

634 Pages
by Routledge

634 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

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.

Biography

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)