deviding both the subjects and the predicates of the categorical propositions into actuality and verity, afzal al-din khunaji states the actuality-parts as adjectives, but verity-parts in three forms: as simple, as relational and as conditional. since the adjectives are formulated in modern logic by conjunction, we can formulate actuality-parts as conjunctions. verity-parts can be formulated at...

Many languages have morphological devices to turn a noun into an adjective. Often this morphology is genuinely derivational in that it adds a semantic predicate such as ‘havingN’ (proprietive), ‘lacking-N’ (caritive’), ‘similar-to-N’ (similitudinal) and so on. In other cases the denominal adjective expresses some vaguely defined notion of possession as in Russian Ivan-ovo (detstvo) ‘Ivan’s (chi...

Semantic orientation (SO) for texts is often determined on the basis of the positive or negative polarity, or sentiment, found in the text. Polarity is typically extracted using the positive and negative words in the text, with a particular focus on adjectives, since they convey a high degree of opinion. Not all adjectives are created equal, however. Adjectives found in certain parts of the tex...

In Chinese, adjectives are sometimes used as verbs and nouns adjectives, especially online. Usually, although the word occupies only one part of speech, it may be another which violate syntactical rules but make sense to most people. this paper, various examples these two phenomena will closely examined, tests implemented verify original speech exact that is a different many observations made.

Bracketing paradoxes of this type arise from the discrepancy between the bracketing required by the meaning and the syntactic subcategorization as in (2a) and that required by the morphological subcategorization as in (2b).1 The prefix unattaches (regularly) only to adjectives and the resulting complex is an adjective (in accordance with Williams’ (1981) Right-hand Head Rule), and -ity attaches...

Title of Document: THE STRUCTURE OF COMPARISON: AN INVESTIGATION OF GRADABLE ADJECTIVES SCOTT FULTS, PHD, 2006 Directed By: DR. PAUL PIETROSKI, DEPARTMENT OF LINGUISTICS This dissertation explores the syntax and semantics of positive and comparative gradable adjectives. A detailed study of intransitive (tall) and transitive (patient with Mary) adjectives is provided with special emphasis on phr...