ACADEMICIA: An International Multidisciplinary Research Journal

  • Year: 2021
  • Volume: 11
  • Issue: 10

Lexoco-semantic characteristics of the adjective in Italian

*Teacher of “Spanish and Italian Languages” Department of Samarkand State Institute of Foreign Languages, Uzbekistan

Online Published on 07 January, 2022.

Abstract

The structural and semantic criterion of differentiation of qualitative and relative adjectives in Italian is considered. It is argued that relative adjectives are derived from other words, which they are motivated by, whereas qualitative adjectives are primitive in the form of expression and polysemous in the language system.

Keywords

Semantic Criterion, Subject Attribute, Native Adjective, Modal Features, Motivation, Semantic Derivation