ABSTRACT
This chapter links some of the structures and principles that it proposed for the noun phrase to the little-studied topic of the internal structure of Adjective Phrases. The existence of a syntax/semantics mapping in the Adjective Phrase is an indirect confirmation of the general correctness of the approach it have pursued in this dissertation. It reviews some reasons to think that the adjective phrase is an 'expanded' structure analogous to the nominal and verbal structure, although perhaps less complex. Cinque's hypothesis of a complex Determiner Phrase (DP) structure with noun movement can be extended to the adjective phrase. The possibility of using measure phrases (MPs) on adjectives is not available in all languages, and languages vary considerably in this construction. Negative scalar adjectives and 'connotational adjectives', do not allow measure phrases and tend to entail the positive form from the comparative one.
