adjectivality
English
Etymology
From adjectival + -ity.
Noun
adjectivality (uncountable)
- The state or condition of being adjectival.
- 2006, Andrew Rosta, in Kensei Sugayama and Richard A. Hudson (editors), Word Grammar: New Perspectives on a Theory of Language Structure, Continuum International Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 189:
- An adjective leave an adjectival trace, […] So if <e> is complement of wax in (66), <e> would have to share the adjectivality of wroth.
- 2006, Andrew Rosta, in Kensei Sugayama and Richard A. Hudson (editors), Word Grammar: New Perspectives on a Theory of Language Structure, Continuum International Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 189:
Related terms
- adjectival
- adjective
- adjectivity