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• Intensional adjective
  ...individual that was president in a preceding term. In this way intensional adjectives manipulate the temporal or modal parameter that is relevant for the interpr [http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=Intensional+adjectives&lemmacode=679 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics]
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• Extensional adjective
  ...es. (For this reason extensional adjectives are also called ''intersective adjectives'').
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• Comparative
  ...er'', ''bigger'' and ''happier'' share the meaning 'MORE ADJECTIVE'. These adjectives often introduce a comparison: ''longer than ..., bigger than ...'' etc.
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• Substantive (noun or adjective)
  ...e''' is occasionally used to denote the word class consisting of nouns and adjectives, sometimes defined by the feature [+N]' (=[[noun]]). ...an older tradition, there was a term for a class including both nouns and adjectives, but this term is [[noun (Latin nomen)]].)
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• Relational
  ...predicates, esp. those denoted by [[noun]]s and [[adjective]]s. Nouns and adjectives is said to be relational when they require an argument in order to be inter
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• Substantive (continental)
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• Lexical category
  ...adverb]]s, etc., whereas lexical categories only comprise nouns, verbs and adjectives. Thus, ''lexical category'' is often contrasted with [[functional category] Baker, Mark. 2003. ''Lexical categories: nouns, verbs and adjectives.'' Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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• Positive
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• Adjective
  ...m'', literally 'attached (noun)'. (In the earlier grammatical terminology, adjectives were a subclass of noun; see [[noun (Latin nomen)]].) *[[Имя прилагательное в колтта-саамском языке|Adjectives in Skolt Saami (in Russian)]]
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• Adjektivphrase
  *H. Broekhuis, Adjectives and Adjective Phrases. MGDOP 1999/2. *N. Harada, Interactions between Functional and Lexical Categories: Are Adjectives 'Verbal' or Are Verbs 'Adjectival'? In: Proceedings of IACL 7/NACCL 10, 199
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• Absolute
  * Adjectives ''blue'', ''old'' and ''long''
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• Superlative
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• Stress
  ==Rules of stress placement for adjectives== ...bic adjectives is a function of the final syllable or suffix. For example, adjectives ending in ''-ant'', ''-ow'', ''-ient'' and ''-ous'' are normally stressed o
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• Noun
  * a superclass consisting of nouns and adjectives; see [[noun (Latin nomen)]]
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• Mapping Principle (in morphology)
  ...adjectives and means 'NOT', and that ''-ity'' creates abstract nouns from adjectives. Furthermore, at the phono-morphological level hierarchical structure plays
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• Compound Affix Ordering Generalization
  The English Class I negative prefix ''in-'' may not attach to compound adjectives (''*in-self-sufficient''), while its Class II counterpart ''un-'' may (''un
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• Blocking
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• Gerund
  ...verbs, can be modified by adverbials, while nouns can only be modified by adjectives (cf. (iii)):
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• Bracketing paradox
  ...of bisyllabic ones with a light final syllable, while it may not attach to adjectives with two or more heavy syllables. Compare the words
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• Adjectival
  ...m'', literally 'attached (noun)'. (In the earlier grammatical terminology, adjectives were a subclass of noun; see [[noun (Latin nomen)]].)
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• Particle
  ...rence between them being thus put on a par with that between substantives, adjectives, [[pronoun]]s, and verbs. But in this way the dissimilarities between these
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• Noun (Latin nomen)
  ...tin and similar Indo-European languages) a class comprising both nouns and adjectives.
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• Haplology
  ...n Dutch, the noun-forming suffix -''eling'' may attach to nouns, verbs and adjectives (''dorpeling'' 'villager', ''zuigeling'' 'infant', ''stommeling'' 'idiot').
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• Predicate-argument structure
  ...f representation, which is part of the lexical representation of verbs (or adjectives), where the information about the [[theta-grid]] is decoded, and as such is
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• Allomorphy
  The English suffix ''-able'' is pronounced /ɪbl/ in adjectives such as possible and probable, but when the noun-forming suffix ''-ity'' is
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• Suffix
  ...English morpheme -''ness'' is a suffix, since it attaches to the right of adjectives (''productiveness'').
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• Conversion
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• Adjacency Condition
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• Auxiliary verb
  ...eably, because grammarians do not talk about "auxiliary nouns", "auxiliary adjectives", or other kinds of auxiliary words.
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• Null morpheme
  ...to some linguists' view, it's also a null morpheme that turns some English adjectives into verbs of the kind of to clean, to slow, to warm. Null derivation, also
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• Profile (in Cognitive Grammar)
  ...verbs and adpositions profile (non-processual) relations of various sorts (adjectives have a Thing as trajector while adverbs have a relational trajector: adposi
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• Tough-movement
  * Berman, A. 1974. ''Adjectives and Adjective Complement Constructions,'' diss. Harvard University.
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• Extrametricality
  ...a>'' with antepenultimate stress, not *''Ameríca''). In English derived adjectives the adjectival suffix is extrametrical. In ''paréntal'' main stress is pen
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• Meaning
  ...he major parts-of-speech, i.e. [[noun|nouns]], [[verb|verbs]], [[adjective|adjectives]] and [[adverb|adverbs]]. Their meaning is specified in the lexicon. Struct
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• Portal:Semantics
  ...sional adjective]] -- [[Predicative adjective]] -- [[Relational|Relational adjectives]] -- [[Superlative]]<br>
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• Lexicon
  ...It furthermore contains a suffixation rule which adds -''ity''<nowiki> to adjectives, and by means of this rule the form [[opaque] ity] is derived. This form is
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• Funktionale Kategorie
  *Harada, N. 1998. Interactions between Functional and Lexical Categories: Are Adjectives 'Verbal' or Are Verbs 'Adjectival'? ''Proceedings of IACL'' 7/''NACCL'' 10,
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• Skolt Saami
  **[[Имя прилагательное в колтта-саамском языке|Adjectives in Skolt Saami (ru)]]
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• Ambiguity, Polysemy and Vagueness
  ...e.g. ''child'', as well as lexemes with flexible boundaries, e.g. gradable adjectives like ''tall'' (cf. Löbner 2002: p. 45). An utterance like “It’s my ''c ...''tall'' man.” is vague as well. ''Tall'' belongs to the group of gradable adjectives. Therefore, the boundaries of the category ''tall'' are flexible depending
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• Tsez
  ...ingular and 2 in the plural. They are prefixes that are attached to verbs, adjectives, adverbs, several postpositions like ''-oƛƛʼo'' ("between") or ''-iłe'' [[Participle]]s behave like adjectives and only vary according to the class agreement, which gets attached to them
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• Register (discourse)
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• Kaili (en)
  ...There are lots of affixes for derivation and verbal inflection. Nouns and adjectives do not have any inflection. There is no overt marking (and no category) of Comparation and gradation of adjectives are partly morphologic, partly lexical. See section 4 for verbal morphology
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• Azionalità
  *Lakoff, G. 1979. ''Stative adjectives and verbs''. Harvard Computational Laboratory Report, n.NSF-17. trad. it. i
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• Intransitivita' scissa
  Cinque G 1990: “Ergative Adjectives and the Lexicalist Hypothesis”, ''Natural Language and Linguistic Theory'
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