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Adjectives

import Linglib.Syntax.Category.Adjective.Basic

Source

An adjective lexeme has a surface form, the scalar dimension it measures with the pole it lexicalizes, a comparison paradigm and a lexical antonym. Gradability is not a split of the type: a gradable adjective is one with a dimension, and wooden or former is the same type without one. The degree semantics, with the positive standard and the Kennedy class, is GradableAdjective in Semantics/Degree/Adjective.lean.

Main definitions

References

  • Bobaljik 2012, Universals in comparative morphology: Suppletion, superlatives, and the structure of words formalized

Comparison morphology

The comparison paradigm of an adjective records its comparative and its superlative, each as the morphs of the form and empty where the entry gives none. A grade formed with a degree word is a form of two words, and a suppletive grade is one word on another root, as better is. Which roots of the grades are one root is a source's judgment, recorded with the source in Data/Wordlist/.

structure Adjective.ComparisonL32–42
:
Type

Derives DecidableEq, Repr, BEq.

Used by Adjective

Used in Fragments/Dutch/Adjectives, Fragments/English/Adjectives, Fragments/Latin/Adjectives, Semantics/Degree/Adjective, Syntax/Category/Adjective/ClauseEmbedding

The adjective object

An adjective lexeme records the syntactic core every adjective shares, its surface form, its scalar dimension and pole, its comparison morphology and its lexical antonym. It carries no denotation of its own; the degree semantics is GradableAdjective in Semantics/Degree/Adjective.lean. Gradability is the derived predicate IsGradable, and a non-gradable adjective has no dimension.

structure AdjectiveL46–68
:
Type
  • form : String

    Surface form (citation/positive-grade).

  • script : Option String

    Native script form, when distinct.

  • dimension : Option Degree.ScalarDimension

    The scalar dimension measured, as a Degree.ScalarDimension key. none for classifying/relational adjectives (wooden, former, medical) and other non-gradables.

  • polarity : Polarity

    The direction of the ordering the adjective imposes on its dimension. Antonyms share a dimension and reverse the ordering (tall positive, short negative), so the negative member measures on the dual scale.

  • comparison : Comparison

    Comparative/superlative morphology.

  • antonymForm : Option String

    Lexical antonym's surface form, when it has a stable one.

Derives Repr, DecidableEq, BEq.

Built from

Used by Adjective.IsGradable, Adjective.instDecidableIsGradable

Used in Fragments/Dutch/Adjectives, Fragments/Latin/Adjectives, Fragments/Slavic/Russian/Adjectives, Semantics/Degree/Adjective, Syntax/Category/Adjective/ClauseEmbedding and 1 more