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This episode we talk all about adjectives, what you can do with them and how they fit into a language.

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Links and Resources

• Grune, D. (1995) Hopi Survey of an Uto-Aztecan Language.
•  Halling, P. H. (2012). Semantic Types and Prototypical Adjectives and Adverbs (“Dixon Specials” on page 6)
• Cuzzolin, P., & Lehmann, C. (2004) Comparison and gradation. Booij, G., Mugdan, J., SS, Lehmann, C.(eds.) Morphologie. Ein internationales Handbuch zur Flexion und Wortbiltung, 2, 1212-1220.
• Stassen, Leon. (2013) Comparative Constructions. In: Dryer, Matthew S. & Haspelmath, Martin (eds.)
  The World Atlas of Language Structures Online. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
• Salt, Mackenzie. (?) Morphological Sketch of Tagalog
• Hallonsten Halling, P. (2009) On the Universality and Variation of the Adjective Category.
• Teodorescu, A. (2006) Adjective ordering restrictions revisited. In Proceedings of the 25th west coast conference on formal linguistics (pp. 399-407).
• Stassen, Leon. (2013) Predicative Adjectives. In: Dryer, Matthew S. & Haspelmath, Martin (eds.)
  The World Atlas of Language Structures Online. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
• Gil, David. (2013) Adjectives without Nouns. In: Dryer, Matthew S. & Haspelmath, Martin (eds.)
  The World Atlas of Language Structures Online.
  Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
• Adjectives, who needs ’em?
• Wikipedia on Spanish adjective placement