Theme: the adjective and the adverb

Questions on the theme:

1. 
   What part of speech does the adjective belong to?
   
2. 
   What grammatical form has the adjective ?
   
3. 
   What lexico-grammatical meaning has the adjective?
   
4. 
   What grammatical(syntactical) functions has the adjective ?
   
5. 
   What are the structural types of the adjectives?
   
6. 
   What are the semsantic types of the adjectives?
   
7. 
   What is the structural classification of the adjectives based on?
   
8. 
   What is the semantical classification of the adjectives based on?
   
9. 
   What grammatical categories have the adjectives?
   
10. 
    What is substantivization of adjectives?
    
11. 
    What part of speech does the adverb belong to?
    
12. 
    What grammatical form has the adverb?
    
13. 
    What lexico-grammatical meaning has the adverb?
    
14. 
    What grammatical (syntactical) functions has the adverb?
    
15. 
    What are the structural types of the adverbs?
    
16. 
    What are the semsantic types of the adverbs?
    
17. 
    What is the structural classification of the adverbs based on?
    
18. 
    What is the semantic classification of the adverbs based on?
    
19. 
    What grammatical categories have the adverbs?
    

1¹ In some dialects (more especially in the North) final [g] may be pro­nounced after [n].

2^ It is sometimes stated that qualitative adjectives form degrees of com-^ parison, whereas relative adjectives (such as wooden, woollen, Asian, oriental) do not. But the division of adjectives into qualitative and relative is not a gram­matical but a semantic division, and some qualitative adjectives have no degrees of comparison either, e. g. perfect, main, etc.

3^ We will not discuss here the question of what adjectives can take these suffixes, since we could not add anything to what is common knowledge.

4^ A similar phenomenon is also found in other languages, for instance in Russian: с величайшим удовольствием; философ, величайшего ума чело­век (ЧЕХОВ) etc. 3*

5^ Another question concerning these fo-rmations is whether they are phrases or compound nouns. We will not go into this question here.

6^ H. Sweet, A New English Grammar, Part I, § 173.

7^ O. Jespersen, A Modern English Grammar, Part II, p. 310 ff.

8^ Sec Э. П. Шубин, Атрибутивные имена в языке Шекспира и их генезис. Ученые записки Пятигорского Гос. Педагогического Института, т. 14, 1957.

9^ In the comparative degree of adjectives( as in” longer” ) we see the progressive degree, whereas in the cases of the adjectives (as in “ red +ish, black+ish”) we find the regressive degree which is indeed weaker than the positive degree.