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User talk:Brett Aug 31st 2011, 01:45 English adjectives: Superficially, it seems like the predicand of "absent" in "Absent the upper classes, {{...}}" is "the upper classes". ← Older revision Revision as of 01:45, 31 August 2011 Line 163: Line 163: Hi, Brett! A few other editors and I have been working on the [[Wiktionary:English adjectives]] page (which has tests to determine whether a word is an adjective), and [[Wiktionary talk:English adjectives|recently we've considered possible additional tests]]. Things are still in the draft stage at the moment, but given your linguistic qualifications, I thought you might be interested in looking over the tests ([[Wiktionary:English adjectives|ones we already have]], and [[Wiktionary talk:English adjectives|ones we could add]], like "coerced scalarity"), and might have ideas of your own about how to improve the page and identify adjectives. [[User:-sche|- -sche]] [[User talk:-sche|(discuss)]] 02:02, 29 August 2011 (UTC) Hi, Brett! A few other editors and I have been working on the [[Wiktionary:English adjectives]] page (which has tests to determine whether a word is an adjective), and [[Wiktionary talk:English adjectives|recently we've considered possible additional tests]]. Things are still in the draft stage at the moment, but given your linguistic qualifications, I thought you might be interested in looking over the tests ([[Wiktionary:English adjectives|ones we already have]], and [[Wiktionary talk:English adjectives|ones we could add]], like "coerced scalarity"), and might have ideas of your own about how to improve the page and identify adjectives. [[User:-sche|- -sche]] [[User talk:-sche|(discuss)]] 02:02, 29 August 2011 (UTC)   +   + * Superficially, it seems like the predicand of {{term||absent|lang=en}} in "Absent the upper classes, {{...}}" is "the upper classes". (I assume that that's how the construction originated? "The upper classes absent, {{...}}" is roughly synonymous, and there it's clear that {{term||absent|lang=en}} is an adjective in an "ablative absolute"–like construction.) I don't doubt that {{term||absent|lang=en}} has become a preposition, with "the upper classes" being its complement, but maybe it would be good to explicitly mention (and reject) the alternative view? —[[User: Ruakh |Ruakh]]<sub ><small ><i >[[User talk: Ruakh |TALK]]</i ></small ></sub > 01:45, 31 August 2011 (UTC)

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