The semantics of gradable adjectives, in particular their order with respect to one another on a given scale, are not sufficiently represented in lexical resources such as wordnets. Thus, it is not clear whether superb expresses the quality of “goodness” equally, more, or less strongly than excellent or great. Sheinman and Tokunaga (2009) determine the relative gradation of English adjectives b...

the present study aims to examine the analysis of persian adjective phrases (aps) within role and reference grammar (rrg) and to appraise the merits and demerits thereof. in rrg, there is no independent ap; therefore, predicative adjectives are considered as predicate inside nucleus of the clause and attributive adjectives are regarded as modifiers within the periphery of nucleusn. each type of...

Ordering of predicative adjectives within the Noun Phrase varies cross linguistically in systematic ways (Cinque 2010). In Spanish adjectival ordering exhibits more flexibility than English. To test extent to which stricter word order English affects ordering, 35 heritage bilingual speakers living an dominant environment were asked judge orders and interpret adjective elisions. Results indicate...

To date, there is almost no work on the use of adverbs in sentiment analysis, nor has there been any work on the use of adverb-adjective combinations (AACs). We propose an AAC-based sentiment analysis technique that uses a linguistic analysis of adverbs of degree. We define a set of general axioms (based on a classification of adverbs of degree into five categories) that all adverb scoring tech...