adjectiveis

Adjectiveis is a term used in linguistic literature to denote adjectives as a grammatical category. The term is used to discuss how adjectives function across languages, particularly with respect to agreement, position, and inflection.

Etymology: the word adjectiveis is a neologism formed from “adjective” plus the Latin-like suffix -is, adopted as a neutral label for cross-language comparison rather than a reference to a specific language.

Morphology and functions: In languages with rich agreement, adjectiveis agree with the nouns they modify in gender, number, and case, and may change form accordingly. In others, adjectives are invariable or show limited agreement. Adjectiveis can be attributive (occurring before or after the noun) or predicative (occurring with a linking verb). Some languages place adjectives before nouns, others after, and some show flexible word order.

Typology and applications: In linguistic typology and computational linguistics, adjectiveis data help characterize typological profiles of languages, compare how adjectives participate in noun phrase structure, and inform parsing, translation, and natural language processing tasks. The concept provides a framework for discussing how adjectival syntax interacts with noun morphology and sentence structure across linguistic families.

See also: adjectives, agreement, inflection, grammatical gender, noun phrase, typology, morphology, syntax.