Syntax of Dutch: Adjectives and Adjective Phrases

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)

• 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.