Adjectives as a word class with nominal and verbal features

Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2012 in the subject Speech Science / Linguistics, University of Prishtina (Albanische Sprache), course: ICRAE 2013 - Shkoder - Albania, language: English, abstract: The class of words, no matter of lexical and semantic differences they have from

class to class, take and give from one another. This inteterrelationship of word classes is

universal in human languages. But classes which represent a closer relation regarding

lexical and semantic aspect with each other are nouns, verbs and adjectives. If we

consider the semantic side of fhe words of these three classes in different languages, we

shall observe that they are similar to each other. This semantic and lexical similarity of

these classes derives from word formation themes which they are formed from.

According to Dixon and Aikenvald, this interrelationship of word classes, differs from

one language to another; in some languages adjectives are formed from nominal word

formation themes (adjectives as nouns not as verbs); in some languages adjectives are

formed mainly from verbs (according to them, adjectives in these languages are as

verbs but not as nouns); in some other languages adjectives are formed from nominal

and verbal word formation themes (according to them, adjectives in these languages are

as verbs and as nouns) for example: Albanian, German. English etc. and eventually in

some languages ¿their adjectives come out not as verbs and not as nouns", which means

that these languages are not familiar with the derivation of adjectives from nouns and

verbs. [...]