1. What is modification? Why is modification relevant for semantic theory? (Definition, criteria for classification, mapping with syntax). McNally (to appear), Morzycki (to appear), Kamp & Partee (1995).
2. Adjectives. Classification (Intersective, subsective and non-subsective). Intersective analysis of apparently subsective adjectives (eventive adjectives, relational adjectives). Restrictive vs. non-restrictive modification, and the interfaces with syntax and pragmatics. Kamp & Partee (1995), Larson (1998), McNally & Boleda (2004), Partee (2010), Bouchard (1998), Demonte (2008, 2012).
3. Degree. Gradable adjectives. Degree expressions. Grammatical vs. semantic gradability (gradability across categories). Bolinger (1972), Bierwisch (1989), Rotstein & Winter (2004), Kennedy & McNally (2005), Kennedy (2007), Klein (1980), Morzycki (2009), van Rooij (2011), Constantinescu (2011), Sassoon & Toledo (2011), Sassoon (2013).
4. Adverbials. Classification according to their category (PPs vs. adverbs) and to their syntax-semantics properties (manner, degree, agent-oriented, evaluative, modal, speech act, etc.). Jackendoff (1972), McConnell-Ginet (1982), Eckardt (1998), Ernst (2002), Frey (2003), Schäfer (2005), Maienborn & Schäfer (2011).
5. Manner. The clausal-manner reading duality. Arguments for a semantic parallelism between degree and manner. Ernst (2002), Schäfer (2003, 2005, 2008), Geuder (2006), Piñón (2007), Landman & Morzycki (2003), Morzycki & Anderson (to appear), Moltmann (2004, 2006, 2009, 2013).