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Tribushinina, Elena, Huub van den Bergh, Dorit Ravid, et al. "Development of adjective frequencies across semantic classes." Language, Interaction and Acquisition 5, no. 2 (2014): 185–226. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/lia.5.2.02tri.

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This paper is a longitudinal investigation of adjective use by children aged 1;8−2;8, speaking Dutch, German, French, Hebrew, and Turkish, and by their caregivers. Each adjective token in transcripts of spontaneous speech was coded for semantic class. The development of adjective use in each semantic class was analysed by means of a multilevel logistic regression. The results show that toddlers and their parents use adjectives more often as the child grows older. However, this holds only for semantic classes denoting concrete concepts, such as physical properties, colour, and size. Adjectives denoting more abstract properties are barely used by children and parents throughout the first year of adjective acquisition. The correlations between adjective frequencies in child speech and child-directed speech are very strong at the beginning, but decrease with time as the child develops independent adjective use. The composition of early adjective lexicons is very similar in the five languages under study.
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McKinney-Bock, Katy. "Adjective Classes and Syntactic Ordering Restrictions." LSA Annual Meeting Extended Abstracts 1 (May 2, 2010): 2. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/exabs.v0i0.481.

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I argue there are four classes of adjectives relevant to syntactic ordering: predicative/intersective, predicative/non-intersective, non-predicative, classifying (Svenonius 2008, Alexiadou et al 2007), and previous proposals have not identified the relevant semantic dimensions. Among the properties of gradability, mass/count, and intersectivity, only intersectivity is syntactically relevant. The four classes of adjectives are motivated by the distribution of ordered/non-ordered adjectives, scope effects with certain adjective-pairs, PP-modification, N-dropping and comparatives (Bouchard 2002, Higginbotham 1985, Kennedy 1999). DP structure involves 1) merging the classifying adjective with pronounced N, 2) merging intersective adjectives with N, 3) merging non-intersective adjectives with a silent copy of N.
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Janik, Marta Olga. "Hva Er Et Adjektiv? Et Forsøk På En Prototypedefinisjon." Folia Scandinavica Posnaniensia 15, no. 1 (2013): 15–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/fsp-2013-0002.

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ABSTRACT The article reviews various definitions of adjectival category in Norwegian, and shows that although they define it in different ways, the core of the definitions is always the same. However, there are some classes of adjectives, which are treated diversely by the Norwegian linguists because of the unlike set of criteria they use in their classifications. In my Ph.D. project, I analyze acquisition of Norwegian adjective agreement by Polish L1 speakers of L2 Norwegian. The aim of the present paper is to propose my own definition of adjective, which is based on prototypical and peripheral meanings. The definition shows a Norwegian prototype adjective (that is not unlike the adjectives presented by the Norwegian grammarians) and discusses the more peripheral cases. The definition focuses on the Norwegian adjectives, but also the Polish are mentioned.
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Ollennu, Yvonne Akwele Amankwaa. "ADJECTIVE SEQUENCING IN GA." Buckingham Journal of Language and Linguistics 10 (December 13, 2017): 71–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.5750/bjll.v10i0.1384.

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The use of multiple words to describe nouns is a common phenomenon in language and languages that have adjectives employ this word class.Ga, a Kwa language of the Niger Congo, branch is no exception, whereas languages without adjectives may use other lexical categories like nouns and verbs which play the adjectival role. Ga has adjectives and employs them as attributives for nouns. The paper examines the syntactic rule governing the occurence of several adjectives serving as attibtutes of a single head noun. In this paper the noun is considered as the head of the Ga Nominal Phrase. The order of these adjectives has not received scholarly attention in Ga and this is to fill that gap in the literature. I argued that the order of adjectives is not haphazardly arranged but follows a laid down syntactc prescription. For instance the data showed that Dimension adjectives normall occur in first position, whereas colour adjectives occur further from the head noun. It was also revealed that in the ordering of adjectives in which Value adjectives is included, the Age adjective occurs in last position and Value adjective occurs first or last when included in the ordering of adjectives for a noun. Consequently, it is opined that defying the arrangement in the ordering of the adjectives resulted in unacceptable forms.The adjectives are grouped according to Dixon semantic classes. Data is gathered from native speakers of Ga. The findings contribute to the existing literature on adjective sequencing in Ghanaian languages.
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Marinellie, Sally A., and Cynthia J. Johnson. "Adjective Definitions and the Influence of Word Frequency." Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 46, no. 5 (2003): 1061–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1044/1092-4388(2003/084).

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The present investigation is a study of the development of adjective definitions given by participants in Grades 6 and 10 and by young adults, as well as the influence of word frequency on those definitions. A total of 150 participants (50 per age group) wrote definitions for 6 high-frequency and 6 low-frequency adjectives. Adjective definitions were analyzed for use of semantic content and also grammatical form. Findings indicated that content of adjective definitions generally followed a developmental course from concrete and functional to more abstract. Response patterns of certain categories, such as superordinate, have implications for organization of the mental lexicon and suggest that adjective definitions may be less predictable than definitions of other grammatical categories, such as noun. Although conventional syntactic form was highly used in definitions (i.e., adjectival form for a definition of an adjective), verb form was also highly used. Conventional form may be less useful to characterize adjective definitions than other grammatical classes. Findings suggest that word frequency has a robust influence on adjective definitions and that development progresses differently for high- and low-frequency words.
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Clasmeier, Christina. "Niebieski ptak und cukier biały – Eine Klassifikation und Korpusanalyse der Funktion und Wortfolge polnischer Farbadjektive." Zeitschrift für Slawistik 65, no. 1 (2020): 96–133. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/slaw-2020-0005.

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SummaryThis paper investigates the position of Polish color adjectives in their attributive function in the noun phrase. In general, Polish attributive adjectives may precede the noun (AN) or follow it (NA). There is rich literature on this issue, especially on the motivation for AN or NA order in particular semantic classes of adjectives or types of adjective-noun constructions. However, most of the contributions are theoretical in nature and account for only a part of linguistic reality but fail to capture the entire scope of data. One of the reasons for this might be that, so far, no systematic empirical analysis of this specific syntactical phenomenon has been conducted. This paper presents the results from a corpus analysis (NKJP) of 203 noun-with-color-adjective constructions and their AN/NA distributions. These constructions were classified based on the color adjective’s function (qualifying, classificatory, or part of an idiom). The results show that, regardless of its respective function, Polish color adjectives typically tend to appear in the AN order.
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Ollennu, Yvonne Akwele Amankwaa. "On Predication of Adjectives in Ga." International Journal of Linguistics 9, no. 2 (2017): 70. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/ijl.v9i2.11067.

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The adjective as a word class is elusive, as sometimes this distinct class is not easy to be identified in some languages though recent linguistics studies have claimed it exists in all languages. In Ga, a Kwa language of Niger Congo, the adjective class can be clearly defined. The Ga adjective class consists of both derived and underived forms. Adjectives are syntactically known to play the role of attribution, and/or predication and also found in comparative constructions. This paper investigates how adjectives in predicative positions in English are expressed in Ga and more especially when multiple ones serve as copula complement. It shows that adjectives in predication are expressed through verbs in Ga. The adjectives found in Ga are classified according to Dixon semantic classes. The data for this study were collected through questionnaire and follow up interviews from some native speakers. From the study, it came to light that verbs that occur in predicate positions as head of the verb phrases may have adjective equivalents but speakers prefer the verbs to the adjectives and there seems to be some number agreement with the nouns in subject position. When the adjective has no verb equivalent, natives make use of relative clauses and also make use of the adjectives. The study further revealed that when multiple adjectives are used in predicative position, though a restricted order was not established, there exist a preferred order for example, dimension adjectives occur before colour adjectives.
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Alfieri, Luca. "The lexicalization of the adjective class as an innovative feature in the Indo-European family." Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics 56, no. 3 (2020): 379–412. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/psicl-2020-0013.

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AbstractThe threefold division noun-verb-adjective is often considered a hallmark of the IE family from the remote PIE phase. However, Alfieri (2016, 2018, forth.) claims that this view is incorrect: while in Latin three major classes of lexemes are found (nouns, verbs and adjectives), in the Sanskrit language of the Rig Veda only two major classes are found (verbal roots and nouns) and the most typical “adjective” (i.e. the Quality Modifier) is a derived stem built on a verbal root meaning a quality. As a consequence, a deep and previously neglected typological change should be reconstructed in the IE family, namely the lexicalization of the adjective class and the change from a parts of speech (PoS) system “without” adjectives and quality concepts verbally encoded, which is still preserved in the RV, to a PoS system with “true” adjectives, which is found in Latin and in almost all other, especially modern and Western, IE languages. In this case, the data in Alfieri (2016, 2018, forth.) are confirmed focusing on the Quality Argument and the Quality Predicate, so as to show that the presence of a lexical class of adjectives is a common development that has come about independently in different branches of the IE family.
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Dort-Slijper, Marjolein van, Gert Rijlaarsdam, and Eva Breedveld. "De Verwerving Van Morfologische Regels in Schrift (III)." Toegepaste Taalwetenschap in Artikelen 61 (January 1, 1999): 97–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ttwia.61.09dor.

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In order to provide textbook authors with empirical data on the acquisition in Dutch of written morphology in nouns, verbs and adjectives, several empirical studies have been undertaken. In this article, the third study reports on the performance of the morpheme -e in a special case of adjectives in Dutch: the adjectives derived from participles. The study tries to determine the possible interference between the morphological rules for verb inflection (past tense) and adjective declension in reading and writing. Five classes of adjectives were distinguished according to order of relative difficulty established a priori. Subjects (n=157, grade 6, 7 and 8 from two schools) individually completed a compre-hension and a production task in which factors were systematically varied. Also a recognition test on the spelling of the past tense of verbs was administered. The results showed an effect of categories of verbal adjectives in the production task, but only for groups 7 and 8; group 6 was not sensitive to the differences between the categories. In the recognition task, no effect of type of adjective (verbal or normal) was found for groups 7 and 8; but for group 6, performance on verbal adjectives was lower for the three most difficult categories of adjectives. In the production task, all three groups performed lower on verbal adjectives than normal adjectives in the two most difficult categories of adjectives. It turned out that groups which acquired spelling rules for the past tense of verbs to a higher level, made more errors in the spelling of verbal adjectives, especially in the two categories of adjectives which related the strongest to the spelling of verbs. It was concluded that indications were found that negative transfer or interference is present. Authors recommend changing the order of phases in which spelling rules are trained: from 'adjective declension-verb inflection (past tense)-verbal adjective declension' to 'adjective declension (including verbal adjective declension)-verb declension (past tense).
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DAVIES, Catherine, Jamie LINGWOOD, and Sudha ARUNACHALAM. "Adjective forms and functions in British English child-directed speech." Journal of Child Language 47, no. 1 (2019): 159–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305000919000242.

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AbstractAdjectives are essential for describing and differentiating concepts. However, they have a protracted development relative to other word classes. Here we measure three- and four-year-olds’ exposure to adjectives across a range of interactive and socioeconomic contexts to: (i) measure the syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic variability of adjectives in child-directed speech (CDS); and (ii) investigate how features of the input might scaffold adjective acquisition. In our novel corpus of UK English, adjectives occurred more frequently in prenominal than in postnominal (predicative) syntactic frames, though postnominal frames were more frequent for less-familiar adjectives. They occurred much more frequently with a descriptive than a contrastive function, especially for less-familiar adjectives. Our findings present a partial mismatch between the forms of adjectives found in real-world CDS and those forms that have been shown to be more useful for learning. We discuss implications for models of adjective acquisition and for clinical practice.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Adjective classes"

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Boleda, Torrent Gemma. "Automatic acquisition of semantic classes for adjectives." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/7587.

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Aquesta tesi tracta l'adquisició automàtica de classes semàntiques per a adjectius. La tesi es basa en dues hipòtesis. La primera, que alguns aspectes de la semàntica dels adjectius no són totalment impredictibles, sinó que corresponen a un conjunt de tipus denotacionals, o classes semàntiques. En conseqüència, els adjectius es poden agrupar en funció de la seva classe semàntica. La segona hipòtesi de treball és que la classe semàntica es reflecteix en més d'un nivell de descripció lingüística. Les interfícies entre morfologia i semàntica i entre sintaxi i semàntica són les que s'exploren en detall a la tesi. <br/><br/>Com que no ens podíem basar en una classificació establerta prèviament, bona part dels esforços van dirigits precisament a definir una classificació adequada. La proposta de classificació s'assoleix mitjançant una metodologia iterativa. Es combinen aproximacions deductives i inductives, cosa que permet evolucionar d'una classificació inicial basada en la bibliografia teòrica a una classificació final que té en compte els resultats empírics dels diversos experiments.<br>Esta tesis versa sobre la adquisición automática de clases semánticas para adjetivos. La tesis se basa en dos hipótesis. La primera, que algunos aspectos de la semántica de los adjetivos no son totalmente impredecibles, sino que corresponden a un conjunto de tipos denotacionales, o clases semánticas. En consecuencia, los adjetivos se pueden agrupar en función de su clase semántica. La segunda hipótesis de trabajo es que la clase semántica se refleja en más de un nivel de descripción lingüística. Las interfaces entre morfología y semántica y entre sintaxis y semántica son las que se exploran en detalle en la tesis. <br/><br/>Dado que no nos podíamos basar en una clasificación establecida previamente, buena parte de los esfuerzos van dirigidos precisamente a definir una clasificación adecuada. La propuesta de clasificación se logra mediante una metodología iterativa. Se combinan aproximaciones deductivas e inductivas, cosa que permite evolucionar de una clasificación inicial basada en la bibliografía teórica a una clasificación final que tiene en cuenta los resultados empíricos de los diversos experimentos.<br>This thesis concerns the automatic acquisition of semantic classes for adjectives. Our work builds on two hypotheses: first, that some aspects of the semantics of adjectives are not totally unpredictable, but correspond to a set of denotational types (semantic classes). Therefore, adjectives can be grouped together according to their semantic class. Second, that the semantic class of an adjective can be traced in more than one linguistic level. In particular, the morphology-semantics and syntax-semantics interfaces are explored for clues that lead to the acquisition of the targeted semantic classes.<br/><br/>Since we could not rely on a previously established classification, a major effort is devoted to defining an adequate classification. The classification proposal is reached through an iterative methodology. By combining deductive and inductive approaches, we evolve from an initial classification based on literature review to a final classification proposal that takes advantage of the insight gained through a set of experiments.
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Alkahtani, Mansour. "Une représentation sémantico-syntaxique des adjectifs prédicatifs en arabe et en français et leur traduction." Thesis, Lyon, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019LYSE2128.

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Traditionnellement, on distingue trois parties du discours dans la langue arabe à savoir le nom, le verbe et la particule. L’adjectif est considéré comme une sous-classe de la catégorie nom. Or si on observe le fonctionnement des ces deux partie, on s’aperçoit que cette partition ne permet pas de rendre compte des caractéristiques qui les séparent. Nous avons donc proposé une nouvelle classification en considérant l’adjectif comme une catégorie à part entière. Puis, nous avons étudié ses fonctions différentes : les adjectifs restrictifs, le complément d’état et les adjectifs prédicatifs. Notre intérêt principal reste pourtant les adjectifs prédicatifs. Nous avons proposé certaines propriétés de ces adjectifs. Le deuxième point concerne la classification sémantique des adjectifs prédicatifs qui s’inscrit dans le cadre du modèle des classes d’objets, dans la lignée de la grammaire transformationnelle de Z. S. Harris. Cette méthode nous permet de construire des classes sémantiques des adjectifs prédicatifs à partir de critères syntaxiques en vue du traitement automatique<br>Traditionally, we distinguish three parts of the speech in the Arabic language: the name, the verb and the particle. The adjective is considered a subclass of the noun category. But if we observe well theses two parts, we realize that this partition does not allow to account for the characteristics the separate them. We have therefore proposed a new classification by considering the adjective as a category itself. Then we studied its different functions: restrictive adjectives, state complement and predictive adjectives. However, our main interest remains the predictive adjectives. We have proposed some properties of these adjectives. The second point concerns the semantic classification of predictive adjectives which is part of the objet class model, in line with Z. S. Harris’s transformational grammar. This method allows us to construct semantic classes of predictive adjectives based on syntactic criteria for automatic processing
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Valetopoulos, Freiderikos. "Les adjectifs prédicatifs en grec et en français : de l'analyse syntaxique à l'élaboration des classes sémantiques." Paris 13, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003PA131008.

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Traditionnellement, on distingue deux grands types d'adjectifs : les qualificatifs et les relationnels. Or, si on observe le fonctionnement de ces deux types d'adjectifs, on s'aperçoit que cette présentation schématique ne permet pas de rendre compte de leur comportement réel. Nous avons donc proposé une analyse qui nous a permis de répertorier six fonctions différentes des adjectifs : les prédicatifs, les classifieurs, les modificateurs, les modificateurs restrictifs, les arguments, les relationnels. Notre intérêt principal reste pourtant les adjectifs prédicatifs. Nous avons proposé certaines propriétés de ces adjectifs, comme la construction N0 ine : être Adj, la détermination multiple, etc. Le deuxième point concerne la classification sémantique des adjectifs prédicatifs. Nous avons inscrit notre étude dans le cadre de la théorie des classes d'objets, qui sont des classes sémantiques construites à partir de critères syntaxiques<br>Traditionally, linguists distinguished two types of adjective: attributive and relational. However, it is easy to demonstrate that this simplified distinction cannot clearly account for the properties of adjectives. I propose an alternative analysis. I differentiate six functions on the basis of their morphosyntactic properties: predicative adjectives, classifiers, modifiers, restrictive modifiers, argument adjectives, and relational adjectives. I have two distinct, but related, purposes: first, to establish a set of criteria to characterize predicative adjectives, such as the construction N0 ine: be Adj, determiner spreading, etc. Second to establish a semantic categorization of these adjectives. This research has been carried out in the theoretical framework of object classes
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Venant, Fabienne. "Représentation et calcul dynamique du sens : exploration du lexique adjectival du français." Phd thesis, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), 2006. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00067902.

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Ce travail de thèse présente un modèle de construction du sens d'un genre nouveau, défini dans le cadre des mathématiques du continu. Le langage y est vu comme un système morphodynamique, obéissant aux principes de base de la Gestalttheorie. Les unités linguistiques découpent leur sens dans un espace sémantique possédant une structure de variété différentiable. Nous avons implémenté ce modèle et l'avons testé sur le lexique adjectival français. Une méthode de construction automatique des espaces sémantiques, reposant sur l'analyse d'un graphe de synonymie, permet d'explorer le lexique adjectival dans son ensemble, ou de construire des espaces locaux. Les espaces sémantiques locaux servent de base à une méthode dynamique de calcul du sens, permettant de prendre en compte les différents facteurs de polysémie adjectivale. L'utilisation des espaces sémantiques globaux ouvre de belles perspectives, tant dans le domaine du calcul du sens que celui de l'exploration de graphes petit monde.
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"Automatic acquisition of semantic classes for adjectives." Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2007. http://www.tesisenxarxa.net/TDX-1227107-143101/.

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Books on the topic "Adjective classes"

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Luis, Borges Jorge. Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings. New Directions, 2007.

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Luis, Borges Jorge. Labyrinthi. Kastaniotis, 1986.

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Luis, Borges Jorge. Labyrinths: Selected stories & other writings. New Directions Pub. Corp., 1970.

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W, Dixon Robert M., and Aĭkhenvalʹd A. I͡U︡, eds. Adjective classes: A cross-linguistic typology. Oxford University Press, 2004.

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R. M. W. Dixon (Editor) and Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald (Editor), eds. Adjective Classes: A Cross-Linguistic Typology (Explorations in Linguistic Typology). Oxford University Press, USA, 2006.

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Adjective Classes: A Cross-Linguistic Typology (Explorations in Linguistic Typology). Oxford University Press, USA, 2004.

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Denison, David. Word Classes in the History of English. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190611040.003.0013.

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The chapter briefly introduces word classes (parts of speech) and corpus linguistics as helpful adjuncts to courses on the history of English, enabling students to find their own examples of phenomena discussed in their course and to test what they are taught against real data. Some suitable corpora from Old English to the present are listed, and essential terminology and techniques are introduced. Problems of varying complexity are suggested for exploration, mostly from current English and recent periods, including derivation and semantic change, conversion, stepwise change from noun to adjective, and the histories of forms like “going to”/“gonna,” “might’ve”/“might of,” “kind of”/“kinda.”
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Saugera, Valérie. Adjectival Anglicisms in the Plural. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190625542.003.0006.

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When adjectives of English origin are pluralized in French, they follow one of three patterns: they receive inflection, they reject inflection, or they occur in both inflected and uninflected forms. This chapter reveals that although uninflected and variable adjectives do violate the standard native rule of adjective agreement, the constraints that block inflection are French-derived. A second feature of these adjectival Anglicisms is that their nominal counterpart, if it exists, always receives native inflection (des jeans baggy vs. des baggys). It is proposed that the difference in word class, and specifically the feature of grammatical gender, accounts for the contrastive behavior.
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Lassiter, Daniel. Gradation, scales, and degree semantics. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198701347.003.0001.

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Since many modal expressions in English are overtly gradable, we need to understand gradability in general if we are to understand their semantics. This chapter introduces a number of core notions in the lexical and compositional semantics of gradable expressions, including the distinction between gradability and scalarity, key notions around adjective type and scale structure, and discusses some background issues such as the treatment of comparison classes and vagueness.
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Lowe, John J. Transitive Nouns and Adjectives. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198793571.001.0001.

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This book explores the wealth of evidence from early Indo-Aryan for the existence of transitive nouns and adjectives, a rare linguistic phenomenon which, according to some categorizations of word classes, should not occur. The author shows that most transitive nouns and adjectives attested in early Indo-Aryan cannot be analysed as belonging to a type of non-finite verb category, but must be acknowledged as a distinct constructional type. The volume provides a detailed introduction to transitivity (verbal and adpositional), the categories of agent and action noun, and early Indo-Aryan. Four periods of early Indo-Aryan are selected for study: Rigvedic Sanskrit, the earliest Indo-Aryan; Vedic Prose, a slightly later form of Sanskrit; Epic Sanskrit, a form of Sanskrit close to the standardized ‘Classical’ Sanskrit; and Pali, the early Middle Indo-Aryan language of the Buddhist scriptures. The author shows that while each linguistic stage is different, there are shared features of transitive nouns and adjectives which apply throughout the history of early Indo-Aryan. The data is set in the wider historical context, from Proto-Indo-European to Modern Indo-Aryan, and a formal linguistic analysis of transitive nouns and adjectives is provided in the framework of Lexical-Functional Grammar.
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Lauwers, Peter. "Between adjective and noun." In Word Classes. John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/cilt.332.11lau.

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Arcodia, Giorgio F. "The Chinese adjective as a word class." In Word Classes. John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/cilt.332.06arc.

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Mifsud, Manwel. ""Imma l'oriġinal oriġinali?": A noun-adjective opposition in some Maltese word-classes of Romance origin." In Studies in Language Companion Series. John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/slcs.113.21mif.

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Creissels, Denis. "The ‘new adjectives’ of Tswana." In Word Classes. John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/cilt.332.05cre.

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Alfieri, Luca. "Qualifying modifier encoding and adjectival typology." In Word Classes. John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/cilt.332.07alf.

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Kim, Min-Joo. "Adnominal Adjectival Classes in Korean." In The Syntax and Semantics of Noun Modifiers and the Theory of Universal Grammar. Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05886-9_2.

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Cinque, Guglielmo. "Two Classes of Intransitive Adjectives in Italian." In Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today. John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1990. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/la.5.14cin.

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Morzycki, Marcin. "Structure and Ontology in Nonlocal Readings of Adjectives." In Language, Cognition, and Mind. Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50200-3_4.

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AbstractIn certain uses, adjectives appear to make the semantic contribution normally associated with adverbs. These readings are often thought to be a peripheral phenomenon, restricted to one corner of the grammar and just a handful of lexical items. I’ll argue that it’s actually considerably more general than is often recognized, and that it admits two fundamentally different modes of explanation: in terms of the syntactic machinery that undergirds these structures and in terms of the ontology of the objects manipulated by its semantics. Both modes of explanation have been suggested for some of the puzzles in this domain, and I’ll argue both are necessary. With respect to adjectives including average and occasional, the key insight is that their lexical semantics is fundamentally about kinds. But to arrive at a more general theory of adverbial readings, it is also necessary to further articulate the compositional semantics. In this spirit, I’ll argue that these adjectives actually have the semantic type of quantificational determiners like every. If this way of thinking about adverbial readings is on the right track, it instantiates a means by which these two distinct modes of explanation—and the distinct aspects of cognition they may ultimately be associated with—both play a crucial role in bringing about the apparently aberrant behavior of this class of adjectives.
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"3. Adjective order restrictions, adjective classes, and property concepts in DP." In Adjectival Modification and Order Restrictions. De Gruyter, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110478457-008.

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Nordhoff, Sebastian. "Jack of all trades: the Sri Lanka Malay flexible adjective." In Flexible Word Classes. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199668441.003.0009.

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Conference papers on the topic "Adjective classes"

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Rojas, Juan-Carlos, Manuel Contero, Jorge D. Camba, M. Concepción Castellanos, Eva García-González, and Sandra Gil-Macián. "Design Perception: Combining Semantic Priming With Eye Tracking and Event-Related Potential (ERP) Techniques to Identify Salient Product Visual Attributes." In ASME 2015 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2015-50956.

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The study of product visual attributes is usually performed through questionnaires which provide information about the conscious subjective opinions of the consumer. This work complements such method by combining Event-Related Potentials (ERP) and Eye-Tracking (ET) techniques and using semantic priming to elicit user perception. Our study focuses on package design and follows the basic structure of classic ERP experiments where participants are presented an ordered sequence of frames (stimuli) in a computer screen for a certain period of time: attention frame, semantic priming frame (descriptive adjective), neutral background, target frame (product image), and a question regarding coherence between priming and target frames. The eye-tracking system works in combination with the ERP experiment. The results of our study reveal the connection between adjectives (semantic priming) and package design attributes (based on the analysis of the N400 ERP component), and the connection between adjectives and the specific visual elements that get more attention (based on the information provided by eye-tracking analysis software).
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Boleda Torrent, Gemma, and Laura Alonso i Alemany. "Clustering adjectives for class acquisition." In the tenth conference. Association for Computational Linguistics, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.3115/1067737.1067740.

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Boleda, Gemma, Toni Badia, and Sabine Schulte im Walde. "Morphology vs. syntax in adjective class acquisition." In the ACL-SIGLEX Workshop. Association for Computational Linguistics, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.3115/1631850.1631859.

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Boleda, Gemma, Toni Badia, and Eloi Batlle. "Acquisition of semantic classes for adjectives from distributional evidence." In the 20th international conference. Association for Computational Linguistics, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.3115/1220355.1220516.

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Yan, Kefei. "Decategorization and the Flexible Use of Adjectives in the Chinese Classics." In 2020 Conference on Education, Language and Inter-cultural Communication (ELIC 2020). Atlantis Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201127.073.

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Starkey, Elizabeth M., Christopher A. Gosnell, and Scarlett R. Miller. "Implementing Creativity Evaluation Tools Into the Concept Selection Process in Engineering Education." In ASME 2015 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2015-47396.

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In design research, creativity assessment methods have been studied to obtain quantitative measurements of design novelty and feasibility for use in the concept selection process. However, little research exists that studies the application and implementation of these tools by engineering students on grade-dependent class projects. In this study, teams of undergraduate engineering design students evaluated their own early product sketches using informal team discussions, a creativity scale and our Tool for Assessing Semantic Creativity (TASC) adjective selection method. The resulting evaluations were compared and contrasted with evaluations obtained from the widely adopted Shah Vargas-Hernandez and Smith (SVS) method and expert ratings. These findings demonstrate that our TASC adjective selection method of evaluating design creativity is tapping into similar constructs of creativity as informal team discussions and expert evaluations. They also indicate that the SVS method does not appear to be evaluating creativity as perceived by engineering design students or experts. The results of this study can be used to understand how students make decisions during the concept selection process and how tools can be developed or implemented in the classroom setting to aid in this process.
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Wilbur, Joshua. "Extracting inflectional class assignment in Pite Saami: Nouns, verbs and those pesky adjectives." In Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Computatinal Linguistics of Uralic Languages. Association for Computational Linguistics, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.18653/v1/w18-0213.

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Zheng, Xuan, and Scarlett R. Miller. "How Do I Choose? The Influence of Concept Selection Methods on Student Team Decision-Making." In ASME 2016 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2016-60333.

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While research has been conducted to study the use of concept selection methods in design education, few studies have focused on the influence of these methods on individual students’ and teams’ thought processes in grade-dependent class projects. In order to fill this research gap, the current study was designed to compare the influence of two concept selection methods, the Concept Selection Matrix (CSM) and a new adjective assessment method called the Tool for Assessing Semantic Creativity (TASC), through an experimental study in two sections of a first year engineering design class. The results of the study show that while students were equally confident in the concept ratings from the CSM and TASC methods, they reported that they were more likely to select ideas ranked highly in the CSM method. However, subsequent analysis revealed no difference between the common elements in the ideas rated highly by the two methods and the final design ideas produced.
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