TY - JOUR AU - Fábregas, Antonio PY - 2017/12/01 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - The syntax and semantics of nominal modifiers in Spanish: interpretations, types and ordering facts JF - Borealis – An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics JA - Borealis VL - 6 IS - 2 SE - Articles on the monographic topic DO - 10.7557/1.6.2.4191 UR - https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/borealis/article/view/4191 SP - 1-102 AB - This article provides an overview of the main facts and theories regarding nominal modifiers, with attention to the internal division of the low DP-structure (gender, number and N). The article presents first the notion of modification seen from the perspectives of semantics and syntax (§1); adjective classes are discussed in §2. §3 discusses the contrasts between prenominal and postnominal adjectives; §4 discusses the ordering of adjectives in sequences; §5 reviews the main theories that account for the facts discussed in §3 and §4. §6 moves to prepositional modifiers, presenting facts and theories about them. §7 presents the conclusions. ER -