adjectivemorphology
Adjectivemorphology is the subfield of linguistics that studies the morphology of adjectives across languages. It examines how adjectives are formed, how they inflect for grammatical features, and how they function within noun phrases and predicates. The field covers derivation, inflection, comparison, and cross-linguistic variation in adjectival systems.
Inflectional morphology marks features such as gender or noun class, number, and case where these are grammatical
Derivation builds adjectives from other parts of speech or from existing adjectives. Common suffixes such as
Degree and comparison form a central area, with synthetic endings or periphrastic constructions expressing more/most. Adjectives