A Corpus Analysis of Adjectival Patterns in a Psychology Textbook

Unearthing adjectives in Wolof: Lexical categories and typological implications

It is widely assumed that Wolof lacks adjectives, encoding property predicates as verbs (e.g., ñuul ‘be black’). This paper argues instead that these property predicates are derived from an underlying adjectival category. Evidence comes from a relative construction restricted to property predicates, whose optional noni...

Frequency and phonological effects on variable noun-adjective order in a spontaneous-speech corpus of Venezuelan Spanish

Adjective position in Spanish offers a window into how multiple levels of the grammar interact in shaping variable structures. Using a corpus of spontaneous Venezuelan speech, we extracted all noun-adjective pairings for 10 adjectives that permitted variation between pre- and post-position in prior research, yieldi...

Can suffixes serve as conceptual relation patterns?

This article looks at the possibility of using morphemes, in this case suffixes in relational adjectives, as markers of conceptual relations. Noun phrases with relational adjectives involve a head noun, an adjective derived from a noun, and a suffix. Following the hypothesis of constructional morphology, we can a...

Elative adjectives in Dutch, English, and Czech

LEXICAL FEATURES OF MODAL WORDS

The aim of this research is to develop a comprehensive and in-depth understanding of the modal phenomenon by exploring the commonalities, interrelations, and distinctions among lexical, grammatical, and modal meanings. This study seeks to examine the origins and historical development of modal words in the language and...

When Color Becomes Metaphor: A Diachronic Corpus Study of Semantic Extension in Four English Color Adjectives

This study examines the metaphorical extension of four English color adjectives: golden, dark, green, and red. The historical change was analyzed in the Corpus of Historical American English (COHA) (1820-2010), and contemporary register distribution in the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) (1990-2019). Fre...