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Qualificative

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Qual´i`fi`ca`tive
n.1.That which qualifies, modifies, or restricts; a qualifying term or statement.
How many qualificatives, correctives, and restrictives he inserteth in this relation.
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For example, in many languages (notably German, Asian, and Pacific languages) qualificative adjectives, which show agreement, are not modified when used as predicate.
Le est de Mars, la est de Venus: understanding and learning French ... by McLauchlan, Alastair / Babel
On the other hand, Setswana compounds are mainly left centred since they conform to the structure of word groups in which the subject and qualificative in these word groups appears at the beginning of the phrase.
Towards a computational morphological analysis of Setswana ... by Pretorius, L.; Viljoen, B.; Pretorius, R.; Berg, A. / Literator: Journal of Literary Criticism, comparative linguistics and literary studies
 
 
 
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