Adjectives -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- List of contributors -- Adjectives -- 1. Adjectives as a word-class -- 2. Semantic properties of adjectives -- 2.1 Gradability -- 2.2 Intersective and non-intersective adjectives -- 2.3 Aspectual classes of adjectives -- 3. The syntax of adjectives -- 3.1 The syntax of attributive adjectives -- 3.1.1 Analyses of attributive adjectives: An overview -- 3.1.2 Prenominal adjectives with complements -- 3.1.3 Languages with different types of adjectives -- 3.2 The syntax of predicative adjectives -- 3.3 The relationship between attributive and predicative adjectives -- 4. The contributions to this volume -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Part I. Syntax -- Syntactic positions of attributive adjectives -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Slavic short and long adjectives (OCS and BCS) -- 3. Short and long adjectives and the structure of the noun phrase -- 3.1 Ellipsis within noun phrases -- 3.2 Coordinated adjectives -- 3.2.1 Long coordinated adjectives -- 3.2.2 Short coordinated adjectives -- 3.3 Ordering restrictions of multiple adjectives -- 4. Agreement of attributive adjectives and (double) agreement inflections -- 4.1 The puzzle: Double agreement? -- 4.2 The analysis of muliple agreement -- 5. Agreeing and non-agreeing adjectives in German -- 6. Concluding remarks -- References -- The syntactic differences between long and short forms of Russian adjectives -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The problem -- 3. Long and short forms in Russian -- 3.1 The syntactic analysis of LF and SF-structures -- 4. Evidence for the syntactic difference in copula constructions with LF/SF-adjectives -- 4.1 Diagnostic I: Agreement with vy 'you (polite)' -- 4.2 Diagnostic II: The third-person pronoun test for nP constituency -- 4.3 Diagnostic III: The distribution of tak and takoj.

4.4 Diagnostic IV: kak + nP -- 4.5 Diagnostic V: The 'predicate genitive' -- 4.6 Diagnostic VI: Differences in meaning between LF and SF -- 4.7 Diagnostic VII: 'Predicate LFs' with overt heads -- 5. Attributive and predicational function of LF-adjectives -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- The name of the adjective -- 1. Introduction -- 2. First attempt at differentiating Noms(A) and regular adjectives: English -- 3. French and Hebrew -- 4. More on pro in Adj-pro and otherwise -- 4.1 The meaning of pro in Adj-pro -- 4.2 Hebrew Adj-pro and ramifications -- 5. Spanish pro, Spanish uno -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Adjectives in Mandarin Chinese -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Adjectives as a separate part of speech -- 2.1 Non-predicative adjectives vs. predicative adjectives -- 2.2 Verbal vs. adjectival reduplication -- 2.3 De-less modification -- 3. The typology of adjectival modification -- 3.1 De-less modification vs. modification with de -- 3.2 Constraints governing the de-less modification structure -- 3.3 The phrasal status of the de-less modification structure -- 3.4 Intermediate summary -- 4. Two classes of adjectives -- 4.1 Reduplication as a morphological process -- 4.2 Derived adjectives as a distinct class -- 4.3 The unacceptability of derived adjectives in verbal compounds -- 4.4 The unacceptability of derived adjectives in the de-less modification structure -- 4.5 The productivity of the 'AABB' reduplication pattern -- 4.6 Intermediate summary -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Part II. Semantics -- Comparisons of similarity and difference -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Two kinds of comparison compared -- 2.1 External distribution -- 2.2 Complement structures -- 2.2.1 Complementation parallels -- 2.2.2 An important difference -- 2.3 Modifiers -- 2.3.1 Modifiers of different and like -- 2.3.2 Modifiers of same -- 2.4 Negative polarity item licensing.

2.5 Sensitivity to "negative" expressions in clausal complements -- 2.6 De re/de dicto ambiguities -- 3. What are comparisons of similarity and difference comparisons between? -- 3.1 Comparison of individuals -- 3.1.1 Background -- 3.1.2 Evaluation -- 3.2 Comparison of (sets of) degrees -- 3.2.1 Background -- 3.2.2 Evaluation -- 3.3 Comparison of sets of properties -- 4. Semantics for different, same, and like -- 4.1 Basic semantic properties of comparisons of similarity and difference -- 4.2 Modifiers -- 4.2.1 Modifiers of different and like -- 4.2.2 Modifiers of same -- 4.3 De re/de dicto ambiguities -- 5. Further issues -- 5.1 NPIs and downward monotone expressions in clausal complements -- 5.2 Further modifiers of different and like -- 6. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Characterizing superlative quantifiers -- 1. Superlatives: The absolute and the comparative -- 2. The syntax of DPs and superlatives: Some problems -- 3. Superlatives as definites -- 4. The semantics of the superlative morpheme -- 5. The dependent reading -- 6. Nominal dependence -- 7. Framing the comparison: The non-intersectivity of superlatives -- 8. The presuppositions of superlatives -- 9. Focus after movement -- 10. The flexibility of the comparative reading -- 11. The non-specificity effect -- 12. Quantification and comparison -- 13. The "upstairs de dicto" reading -- 15. Conclusion -- References -- Superlative adjectives and the licensing of non-modal infinitival subject relatives -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Superlatives and focus -- 2.1 Association with focus -- 2.2 Nominal supersets and focalization -- 2.3 Adjectival supersets and focalization -- 3. Identificational focus -- 4. Contrastive identificational focus -- 5. Non-veridicality -- 6. Movement to FocusP -- 6.1 Adverbs -- 6.2 Clefts -- 6.3 Preposed quantificational adjectives.

6.4 Non-inverted copula constructions -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- Sentential complementation of adjectives in French -- 1. Introduction: Complementation and the relationship between meaning and form -- 2. Propositional adjectives -- 3. Emotive adjectives -- 4. Effective adjectives and properties of their non-finite complements -- 5. "Impostor" adjectives -- 5.1 Adjectives of the chanceux 'lucky' type -- 5.2 Moral quality adjectives -- Conclusion -- References -- Spanish adjectives within bounds -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The aspect of adjectives -- 3. Stage-level adjectives -- 3.1 Pseudo-copular verbs -- 3.2 Predicative complements -- 3.3 Predicative absolute constructions -- 3.4 Absolute constructions introduced by con -- 4. Ambivalent adjectives -- 5. Individual-level adjectives -- 5.1 By coercion -- 5.2 Dynamic adjectives -- 5.2.1 Tests for dynamicity -- 5.2.2 Tests for agentivity -- 6. Conclusions -- References -- Languages index -- Subject index -- The series Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today.