Adjectives Flashcards
1
Q
Give a morphological property of adjectives
A
They can have suffixes -est and -er but never -s
2
Q
What are the two basic functions of adjectives?
A
Predicative and Attributive
3
Q
What are predicative adjectives?
Give an example
A
Those that appear outside of the noun phrase
“He seems tired”
4
Q
What are attributive adjectives?
A
Those that directly modify nouns
-they have a fixed position, before the nouns
5
Q
Give an example of a language with a closed class of adjectives
A
Jawara has only 14
6
Q
Explain agreement of adjectives
A
In some languages, adjectives agree with the noun
Spanish: el hombre guap-o, la chica guap-a
