Decoding and Encoding Grammatical Information in Adjectival Entries: The Basics (1)‪.‬

Dictionaries usually characterise the Adjective in limited categorial terms (notional and positional). The present study--the first of two issues--tries to broad the lexicographical adjectival horizons by laying the theoretical foundations of a lexicon centred on individual members of the adjective category, in parallel fashion to Garrudo (1991, 1996) in the verbal field. Syntactic and semantic discreteness of adjectival items will be described in accordance with their potential to function predicatively in an ascriptive structure. However, their discreteness does not preclude the relationship of certain adjectival entries through different syntactic processes. The items will be streamlined by their subcategorisation features and their collocational and/or selectional restrictions. All this leads to configurational patterns of distribution typologies of adjectival forms through different notational conventions. OBJECTIVES