Some restrictions on the order of English premodifying adjectives were already pointed out by Whorf (1956). The first manual corpus studies of the order of premodifying adjectives were carried out by Goyvaerts (1968), Vendler (1968), Quirk and Greenbaum (1973), and Dixon (1982). In all, I have encountered over a hundred of studies concerning the ordering of premodifying adjectives. As a result ...

In this paper we report on an ongoing multiinstitution effort to encode inferential patterns associated with adjective modification in English. We focus here on a subset of intensional adjectives typically referred to as “non-subsective” predicates. This class includes adjectives such as alleged, supposed, so-called, and related modally subordinating predicates. We discuss the initial results o...

The meaning of gradable adjectives is highly contextdependent, and is notoriously difficult to capture precisely. Recent work in theoretical linguistics suggests that the way we use gradable adjectives can be explained in terms of optimal language use. To test this hypothesis we formulate a probabilistic speaker model that combines ideas from Bayesian approaches to pragmatic reasoning as social...

A model for an Internet web crawler with a very limited vocabulary can be devised to learn most words in the English language. The system will have the ability to read a sentence where only constituents of the sentence are known. In order to achieve this, the system will provide a methodology to resolve ambiguities within the unknown constituent words and parts of speech. The system will includ...

Computation with information described in natural language (NL) has intrinsic importance because much of human knowledge is described using these languages. Soft Computing approach to NL-Computation concerns with semantic imprecision of natural languages through the use of NL precisiation, generalized constraints and prototypical forms. NLs are basically systems for describing perceptions. NL p...

The present paper studies the use of adjectives in Shakespeare's Sonnets (4, 5, 6, & 9), which are chosen randomly, on three levels: grammar, lexis and conversation. It tackles as a literary term with presenting their forms functions. presentation is done according to themes, functions conversation, shown this for forms, frequency meanings sonnets effects studying. analysis Quirk et al. (19...

Two studies demonstrate that children have knowledge of scalar distinctions between three sub-classes of gradable adjectives: relative (big, long), absolute with a maximal standard (full), and absolute with a minimal standard (spotted). Performance on these adjectives is compared with controls (shape, color, mood). Children appropriately shift the standard of comparison with context-dependent, ...