English orthography sometimes uses the term proper adjective to mean adjectives that take initial capital letters, and common adjective to mean those that do not. For example, a person from India is Indian—Indian is a proper adjective.
orthography sometimes uses the term properadjective to mean adjectives that take initial capital letters, and common adjective to mean those that do not. For...
An adjective (abbreviated adj.) is a word that describes or defines a noun or noun phrase. Its semantic role is to change information given by the noun...
broadly. Words derived from proper names are sometimes called proper adjectives (or proper adverbs, and so on), but not in mainstream linguistic theory. Not...
important, and right. Adjectives head adjective phrases, and the most typical members function as modifiers in noun phrases. Most adjectives either inflect for...
A postpositive adjective or postnominal adjective is an adjective that is placed after the noun or pronoun that it modifies, as in noun phrases such as...
dictionaries). When one of the parts of the modifier is a proper noun or a properadjective, there is no hyphen (e.g., "a South American actor"). When...
Capital letters are used as the first letter of a sentence, a proper noun, or a properadjective. The names of the days of the week and the names of the months...
lexical argument – that Μελιταῖος/Melitaîosis the properadjective for Melite/Malta, whereas the adjective for Melite/Mljet must have been Μελιτήνος/Melitēnos...
prototypical nouns are common nouns or proper nouns that can occur with determiners, articles and attributive adjectives, and can function as the head of a...
ma Papuwanijukini ("Papua New Guinea"), which includes a 14-letter properadjective. Vietnamese is an isolating language, which naturally limits the length...
or was said earlier. Demonstrative constructions include demonstrative adjectives or demonstrative determiners, which qualify nouns (as in Put that coat...
concrete or abstract entity. It includes various species like nouns, adjectives, proper nouns, appellatives, collectives, ordinals, numerals and more. Verb...
nominalized adjective is an adjective that has undergone nominalization, and is thus used as a noun. In the rich and the poor, the adjectives rich and poor...
whom or which someone or something is, or is believed to be, named. The adjectives which are derived from the word eponym include eponymous and eponymic...
modifies (expresses an attribute of) a noun in the manner of an attributive adjective, rather than express an independent idea as a predicate. In English (and...
German properadjective. The Vietnamese name is based on the Chinese name. The Japanese name is a phonetic approximation of the Dutch properadjective. The...
Arabic nouns and adjectives are declined according to case, state, gender and number. While this is strictly true in Classical Arabic, in colloquial or...
pronouns, there are also distributive determiners (also called distributive adjectives). The pronouns and determiners often have the same form: Each went his...
isolated proper nouns; instead, they must modify a preceding noun. For this reason, they may be called "properadjectives" or simply "proper words" instead...
request that they cease the improper usage. The proper use of a trademark means using the mark as an adjective, not as a noun or a verb, though for certain...
altered to show grammatical case, number and gender. Nouns, pronouns, and adjectives are declined (verbs are conjugated), and a given pattern is called a declension...
includes androgyny – having both masculine and feminine characteristics. The adjective gender-neutral may describe epicenity (and both terms are associated with...
grapheme (pona) nested inside the grapheme (toki). Names (grammatically properadjectives) are written by enclosing multiple characters in a cartouche shaped...
A collateral adjective is an adjective that is identified with a particular noun in meaning, but that is not derived from that noun. For example, the...
delivering the intersection of their denotations. One example is the English adjective "blue", whose intersectivity can be seen in the fact that being a "blue...