P. H. Matthews is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. He has formerly held positions at Bangor University and the University of Reading, and has been an Honorary Member of the Linguistic Society of America since 1994. His many books include The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics (3rd edn; OUP 2014), Syntactic Relations: A Critical Survey (CUP 2007), Linguistics: A Very Short Introduction (OUP 2003), and A Short History of Structural Linguistics (CUP 2001).

• 1. Introduction ; 2. Which words are adjectives? ; 3. Can one position be primary? ; 4. How the syntax of adjectives has changed ; 5. Modifiers and determiners ; 6. Relations between premodifiers ; 7. Linear and layered dependency ; 8. Adjectives in extended predicative positions ; 9. States and occurrences ; 10. The positions of premodifiers ; 11. Envoi

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