Meaning of Syntax: A Study in the Adjectives of English

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Summary

This book adopts a new approach to a major area of syntax - the way in which adjectives are bound together with other words in phrases or sentences.

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Preface
Descriptive signs
Acknowledgements
Series List
The intensional framework of syntax	p. 1
Attributive adjectives: the distinction between ascriptive and associative	p. 19
Predicative and postnominal attributive adjectives	p. 35
Predicate qualifiers and clausal adjectives	p. 62
Adverbal and postverbal adjectives	p. 81
Minor structures	p. 98
Restrictive and non-restrictive adjectives	p. 117
Intensional grouping	p. 126
Extraclausal adjectives and numerals. The interpretation of constructions with have	p. 147
The semantic distinction between mode and comment	p. 167
Appendix A: The elusive nature of syntax	p. 187
Appendix B: Towards a formalism for intensional syntax	p. 201
Appendix C: The identity of the adjective positions	p. 217
References	p. 224
Index of adjectives and adverbs	p. 227
Index	p. 233
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