In this paper, I investigate certain intriguing properties of two types quantificational adjectives exemplified by the English two-time and double their interactions with event semantics. explore semantic behavior in phrases such as champion murder show that they operate on hidden eventive components within semantics modified NPs. Building Zobel's (2017) analysis social roles Wągiel's (2018) th...

The present paper addresses the question how in syntactic parsing the coverage of words in previously unseen text may be improved. The adjectives in English are presented here as a case study. Working on the assumption that most new words that are introduced into the language are constructed on the basis of already existing words through the application of word-formation processes, we investiga...

Adjectives are one of the major contributors to conveying subjective meaning to sentences. Understanding the semantics of adjectives is essential for understanding natural language sentences. In this paper we propose a novel approach for learning different properties that an adjective can describe, corresponding to the ‘attribute concepts’, which is not currently available in existing linguisti...

In the paper we analyse Polish descriptive adjectives which occur in domain related texts. The experiments were done on data obtained from hospital discharge records. Prenominal adjectives selected from these texts were filtered out of presumably relative adjectives and clustered on the basis of a set of context related features and interword relations derived from Wordnet. We tested if this pr...

This paper provides a new account of positive versus negative antonyms. The data includes well known linguistic generalizations regarding negative adjectives, such as their incompatibility with measure-phrases (cf., two meters tall/ *short) and ratio-phrases (twice as tall/ #short), as well as the impossibility of truly cross-polar comparisons (*Dan is taller than Sam is short). These generaliz...

In Study 1, English-speaking 3- and 4-year-olds heard a novel adjective used to label one of two objects and were asked for the referent of a different novel adjective. Children were more likely to select the unlabeled object if the two adjectives appeared prenominally (e.g., "a very DAXY dog") than as predicates (e.g., "a dog that is very DAXY"). Study 2 revealed that this response occurred on...

This study focuses on trilateral reduplicated roots (CVCC), such as laff “wrap’”, and quadrilateral duplicated (CVCCVC), like waswas “whisper” their counterparts of the type C1VC2CC1VCc21 C1VC2C1VC2 in Urban Hijazi Arabic dialect (UHA dialect). research centers reduplication UHA a total duplication. Semantically, this displays three main functions: 1) intensifying reduplication, adjectives; 2) ...