Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. List of contributors vii
4. Adjectives 1
5. Part I. Syntax
6. Syntactic positions of attributive adjectives 29
7. The syntactic differences between long and short forms of Russian adjectives 53
8. The name of the adjective 85
9. Adjectives in Mandarin Chinese 115
10. Part II. Semantics
11. Comparisons of similarity and difference 155
12. Characterizing superlative quantifiers 187
13. Superlative adjectives and the licensing of non-modal infinitival subject relatives 233
14. Sentential complementation of adjectives in French 265
15. Spanish adjectives within bounds 307
16. Languages index 333
17. Subject index 335