ABSTRACT
Like verbs and nouns, adjectives can combine with other phrases to form a larger °projection. These other phrases with which adjectives combine can be divided into °arguments and °modifiers. An adjective such as boos ‘angry’ in (1a), for instance, takes the PP op zijn vader ‘at his father’ as its complement, and can also be modified by an °intensifier such as erg ‘very’. The projection (erg) boos op zijn vader thus formed acts as a constituent, which is clear from the fact illustrated by (1b) that it can be moved as a whole into clause-initial position; cf. the °constituency test. However, the adjective and its complement may also occur discontinuously, as is illustrated in (1c&d).
