Adjectives in Germanic and Romance -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Foreword -- The adjective in Germanic and Romance -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Development -- 2.1 Adjectives in Romance and Germanic -- 2.2 Inflection -- 2.2.1 Germanic -- 2.2.2 Romance -- 2.3 Position with regard to the noun -- 2.3.1 Germanic -- 2.3.2 Romance -- 3. The current position of adjectives with respect to the noun -- 3.1 The surface position of adjectives -- 3.2 Cinque's (2010) analysis of adjectives -- 3.2.1 Direct modifiers -- 3.2.2 Indirect modifiers -- 4. Determiner and adjective -- 4.1 Double definiteness -- 4.2 Single definiteness -- 4.3 Weak and strong adjectival inflection -- 5. An overview of the contributions to this volume -- 5.1 Change -- 5.2 Variation -- References -- The adjective-adverb interface in Romance and English -- 1. Introduction -- Type A and Type B in present-day English and Romance -- 2.1 Verb-modifying attributes -- 2.2 Tertiary attributes (modifiers of adjectives or adverbs) -- 2.3 Sentential adverbs and discourse markers -- 2.4 Type A and traditional Type C adverbs (good vs. well) -- 2.5 Comparative and superlative -- 3. The diachrony of Type A and Type B in Romance and English -- 3.1 Romance -- 3.2 English -- 3.2.1 Internal linguistic development in Old and Middle English -- 3.2.2 The way to Modern English: External influence and linguistic norm -- 4. The Old-World-New-World gap -- 5. One or two word-classes? -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- The position proper of the adjective in Middle English -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Postposition of the adjective in Old French and Middle English -- 2.1 Old French -- 2.2 Middle English -- 3. Language contact and multilingualism in ME -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Strong and weak adjectives in Old Swedish* -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Prerequisites.

2.1 The inflection of adjectives in Old Swedish and Modern Swedish -- 2.2 The concept of definiteness -- 2.3 The structure of definite noun phrases in Modern Swedish -- 3. Theoretical presumptions and a hypothesis -- 4. The structure of semantically definite noun phrases in Old Swedish - a first glimpse -- 5. Sources -- 6. Investigation 1 -- 7. Investigation 2 -- 8. Conclusions and comments -- References -- The resilient nature of adjectival inflection in Dutch* -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Preliminaries: The history of the adjectival inflection and the structure of the noun phrase in Dutch -- 3. Acquisition -- 4. The rise of inflection in the adjectival zone -- 4.1 Reanalysis of the derivational ending on material adjectives -- 4.2 Cooptation of non-adjectival schwa in numerals -- 4.3 Proleptic inflection -- 5. The demise of inflection in the determiner zone -- 5.1 Loss of inflection on possessive pronouns -- 5.2 Reduction of inflection on zulk -- 5.3 Reduction of inflection on determiner-quantifiers ieder(e), elk(e) and sommig(e) -- 5.4 Accommodating inflectional patterns of quantifiers veel and weinig -- 5.5 Reduction of inflection on anaphoric adjectives -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Appendix: Corpora -- On the properties of attributive phrases in germanic (and beyond) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. German -- 2.1 General properties of complex attributes in German -- 2.2 Differences between attributive structures -- 2.3 Attributes in German: The morphosyntactic derivation -- 2.3.1 The structure of participial attributes -- 2.3.2 The head of the C projection -- 2.3.3 Case-licensing of op -- 2.3.4 A unified analysis -- 3. Cross-linguistic variations on a theme: Attributive functional heads in other languages -- 3.1 EPP-less attribution is in-situ attribution -- 3.2 Variation of the identification features.

3.2.1 Differing identification feature sets in other languages -- 3.2.2 Potentially ambiguous identification features: The case of Standard Arabic -- 3.2.3 No identification at all: Chinese de -- References -- From participle to adjective in Germanic and Romance* -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Mixed categories -- 3. Interpretations of participles in Germanic -- 3.1 Three types of participles -- 3.2 A fourth type of participle -- 4. Interpretation of participles in Romance -- 4.1 Three types of participles (in French) -- 4.2 A fourth type of participle (in French) -- 4.3 Très + passive participle -- 4.4 Syntactic analysis of the four types of participles -- 5. Similarities between Germanic and Romance -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- The mixed categorial behavior of cel + participle in Romanian -- 1. The adjectivization process -- 2. The data: The Romanian present participle in modifier position -- 2.1 The present participle structures -- 2.2 The syntactic behavior of the participial structures -- 3. The determiner cel in the present participle structure -- 4. The cel-present participle structure and lexical aspect -- 5. The syntactic representation of the four participle structures -- 6. Conclusions -- References -- Inside and Outside - Before and after -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Direct and Indirect Modification. -- 2.1 Two Sources. -- 2.2 (Non-) Restrictivity. -- 3. The "Weak" Patterns -- 3.1 Indirect Modifiers - Direct Modifiers -- 3.2 (Non-) Referentiality and Appositive Descriptions -- 3.3 Structural Relations - Sketch of an Analysis -- 4. Strong Adjectives in Definite Noun Phrases are outside DP -- 4.1 Appositive Adjectives -- 4.2 Temporal Dependence vs. Temporal Independence -- 4.3 Expressives and Appositives -- 5. Conclusion - Open Issues -- References -- Adjectives in German and Norwegian* -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Adjectives in definite contexts.

3. The weak/strong opposition in German -- 4. The weak/strong opposition in Norwegian -- 5. Scandinavian more generally -- 6. Conclusions -- References -- Cross-linguistic variation in agreement on Germanic predicate adjectives* -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A lexical approach -- 3. Syntactic approaches -- 3.1 Vikner's (2001, 2005, 2006) syntactic approach -- 3.2 A problem for Vikner's analysis -- 3.3 Problems for any syntactic approach -- 4. A morphosyntactic account -- 4.1 Agreement on predicative adjectives in Northern Germanic -- 4.2 The absence of agreement on Dutch and German predicative adjectives -- 4.2 Additional support for the analysis -- 4.4 A challenge for the analysis -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Author index -- Subject index.