Relations between time perception and Type A behaviour were investigated. Extreme Type A (n = 26) and B (n = 28) male college undergraduates rated the appropriateness of 158 adjectives as descriptors of time. Adjectives were independently rated using seven-point Likert 'speed' and 'energy' scales. Analyses showed that Type As rate adjectives low in speed and energy as less descriptive of time t...

Learning and conceptualizing words categories such as verbs, nouns and adjectives in language based on sensorimotor interactions of a robot is a challenging topic in cognitive robotics. In this article, we summarize our approach that is based on first learning affordances of objects by interacting with them, and then, learning and conceptualizing verbs, nouns and adjectives from these interacti...

In this paper, I address the categorial status of quantifiers and similar expressions in German. Traditionally, they are assigned either of two classes: determiners and adjectives. I argue that German quantifiers in principle are ambiguous and can be realized alternatively as determiners or adjectives. The categorial status is mirrored by the declension of attributive adjectives following these...

Size adjectives can have degree readings when they modify gradable nouns. However, a cross-linguistic variation exists with respect to what type(s) of size adjectives in a particular language can have such readings. In English degree readings are available only for size adjectives that predicate bigness, and in Mandarin Chinese degree readings are available for all size adjectives irrespective ...

0. Introduction Montague (1970a) presented a semantic treatment of adjectives which he credited to unpublished work done independently by Hans Kamp and Terence Parsons; that work, and similar independent work of Romaine Clark, was subsequently published (Clark 1970, Kamp 1975, Parsons 1970). The central claim in that work was that adjective meanings should be analyzed as functions from properti...

Aiming to compile a thesaurus of adjectives, we discuss how to extract abstract nouns categorizing adjectives, clarify the semantic and syntactic functions of these abstract nouns, and manually evaluate the capability to extract the “instance-category” relations. We focused on some Japanese syntactic structures and utilized possibility of omission of abstract noun to decide whether or not a sem...