This paper analyzes the conjunction of the ‘adjectives of quantity’ many and few with ordinary gradable adjectives. It is shown that the facts surrounding this construction support an analysis of adjectives of quantity as ‘degree predicates’: predicates of intervals on the scale of cardinality. It is further shown that gradable adjectives also have a secondary interpretation as degree predicates.

Adjectives in Basaá [ɓasaá] (Bantu, A43: Cameroon) are morphologically nominal: they possess inherent noun class and distinguish singular and plural (Dimmendaal 1988, Hyman 2003). Additionally, adjectives in Basaá function as the head of their noun phrase, in a sense to be made precise below. This challenges the standard assumption that noun phrases or DPs are projected (or headed) by nouns. Th...

ing and generalizing, the schema for the type they propose for relational adjectives is that represented in (25), where the adjective is of type <,> – in this sense, a predicate modifier – but effectively intersective in the sense that it introduces a first-order property which is predicated of one of the modified noun’s arguments. (25) λPλx/y [P(x, ..., y) ∧ N(x/y)], where N is the n...

We examine predicative adjectives as an unsupervised criterion to extract subjective adjectives. We do not only compare this criterion with a weakly supervised extraction method but also with gradable adjectives, i.e. another highly subjective subset of adjectives that can be extracted in an unsupervised fashion. In order to prove the robustness of this extraction method, we will evaluate the e...

ness and Temporal Extension: As abstract concepts we regard all those entities the denotation of which we cannot touch with our hands and which are not part or a collection of entities which can be touched. Stones, scree and atoms are concrete, ideas and good are not. Adjectives derived from concrete nouns (e.g. stony) are coded as concrete in their literal meaning since they inherit the refere...

We investigated to what extent emotional connotation influences cortical potentials during reading. To this end, event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded during reading of high arousal pleasant and unpleasant and low arousal neutral adjectives that were presented at rates of 1 Hz and 3 Hz. Enhanced processing of both pleasant and unpleasant emotional compared to neutral adjectives was firs...