In this volume leading researchers present new work on the semantics and pragmatics of adjectives and adverbs, and their interfaces with syntax. Its concerns include the semantics of gradability; the relationship between adjectival scales and verbal aspect; the relationship between meaning and the positions of adjectives and adverbs in nominal and verbal projections; and the fine-grained semantics of different subclasses of adverbs and adverbs. Its goals are to provide a comprehensive vision of the linguistically significant structural and interpretive properties of adjectives and adverbs, to highlight the similarities between these two categories, and to signal the importance of a careful and detailed integration of lexical and compositional semantics. The editors open the book with an overview of current research before introducing and contextualizing the remaining chapters. The work is aimed at scholars and advanced students of syntax, semantics, formal pragmatics, and discourse. It will also appeal to researchers in philosophy, psycholinguistics, and language acquisition interested in the syntax and semantics of adjectives and adverbs.

1. Introduction, Louise McNally and Christopher Kennedy; 2. The Position of Adjectives and Other Phrasal Modifiers in the Decomposition of DP, Peter Svenonius; 3. Ezafe and the Deep Position of Nominal Modifiers, Richard Larson and Hiroko Yamakido; 4. Meaning-Form Correlations and Adjective Position in Spanish, Violeta Demonte; 5. Nonrestrictive Modifiers in Nonparenthetical Positions, marcin Morzycki; 6. Adjectives and Degree Modification, Jenny Doetjes; 7. Measure of Change: The Adjectival Core of Degree Achievements, Chris Kennedy and Beth Levin; 8. Aspectual Composition With Degrees, Christopher Pinon; 9. Manner Modification of State Verbs, Graham Katz; 10. Towards Flexible Types With Constraints for Manner and Factive Adverbs, Adam Zachary Wyner; 11. Lexical Semantics and Pragmatics of Evaluative Adverbs, Olivier Bonami and Daniele Godard; 12. Discourse Adjectives, Gina Taranto