Category talk:English adjectives

Could adding words to categories like this be automated? Surely a routine that looked for ==English== and ===Adjective=== would cover it? 20.133.0.14 09:45, 23 May 2005 (UTC)

Determiners are not adjectives
Traditional English grammar does not include determiners and calls most determiners adjectives. There are, however, a number of key differences between determiners and adjectives.

--BrettR 01:17, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 1) In English, articles, demonstratives, and possessive determiners cannot co-occur in the same phrase, while any number of adjectives are typically allowed.
 * 2) A big green expensive English book
 * 3) * The his book
 * 4) Articles cannot occur alone in complement position, adjectives can.
 * 5) He is happy.
 * 6) * He is the.
 * 7) Most determiners are not gradable, while adjectives typically are.
 * 8) happy, happier, happiest
 * 9) Adjectives cannot stand alone as a subject or object in a fused-head construction, while determiners typically can.
 * 10) Each likes something different.
 * 11) * Big likes something different.
 * 12) Adjectives are licensed independent of number, while many determiners are licensed only for singular or for plural nouns.
 * 13) a big person / big people
 * 14) many people / * many person
 * 15) Adjectives are never obligatory, while determiners often are.

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