ABSTRACT
An important morphological property of adjectives in English, although not restricted to adjectives, is that many of them can be infl ected to express their comparative and superlative forms, e.g. tall – taller – tallest , nice – nicer – nicest , and so on. But not all adjectives are able to display such forms, e.g. intelligent , beautiful , amongst others. The comparative and superlative forms of such adjectives require the adverbs more and most , respectively, to combine with them, e.g. more intelligent , more beautiful , most intelligent , most beautiful , and so on. As we will see, this is also the way French and some French creoles express their comparative and superlative adjectives.
