Substantivization of Adjectives

As is known adjectives under certain circumstances can be substantivized, i.e. become nouns.

B. Khaimovich states that "when adjectives are converted into nouns they no longer indicate attributes of substances but substances possessing these attributes.

H. Khaimovich speaks of two types of substantivization full and partial. By full substantivization he means when an adjective gets all the morphological features of nouns, like: native, a native, the native, natives. But all the partial substantivization he means when adjectives get only some of the morphological features of nouns, as far instance, the adjective "rich" having substantivized can be used only with the definite article: the rich.

B. Ilyish is almost of the same opinion: we shall confine ourselves to the statement that these words are partly substantivized and occupy an intermediate position.

More detailed consideration of the problem shows that the rich and others are not partial substantivization. All the substantivized adjectives can be explained within the terms of nouns.

Statives.

Statives are words built up by the prefix a- and denoting different states, mostly of temporary duration(such states asthe physical state of a person (astir, afoot); the physical state of an object (afire, ablaze, aglow); the state of an object in space (askew, awry, aslant).The most typical position of adlinks in the sentence is that of a predicative and they are but occasionally used as pre-positional attributes to nouns. They do not possess the category of the degrees of comparison. The combinability of statives is different from that of adjectives in so far as they are not used in the pre-positional attributive function, i.e. are characterized by the absence of the right-hand combinability with nouns.

Stone wall constructions.

In such constructions a noun stands before another noun and modifies it(adjectivization of nouns). The first element of such constructions is unable to form degrees of comparison, the first element usually appears in one number form, which is either singular or plural, the first element denotes a substance but this substance only serves to characterize the property of the thing denoted by a noun.

According to the field theory adjectivized nounsare as well as substantivised adjectives are at the overlap of the two fields of the Noun and the Adjective.

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Adjective. The Category of degree of comparison.	\|	The category of tense. Prosteriority.

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