Publisher's Synopsis
Although adjectives (or their semantic equivalents) figure in many languages (including German and Korean) as independent parts of speech in their own right, language-specific morphosyntactic differences have hitherto militated against referring to adjectives as a universal part of speech. Proceeding from a semantic-cum-functional adjective definition as the foundation for a possibly universal category 'adjective', the study elaborates functional categories explaining language-specific phenomena as instances of parametric variation, thus contributing to a universalist description of sentence structure.
