ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the adjectival derivation with suffixes from verb and noun bases. Adjectivalization is the derivation of adjectives from other categories by attaching suffixes, prefixes, and prefixes and suffixes in so-called parasynthetic formations. The adjectival suffixes combine with different categories: verbs, nouns, adverbs, and adjectives. The derivation of adjectives in Spanish focuses on two types of productive processes: on the one hand, deverbal adjectivalization, and, on the other, denominal adjectivalization. According to the grammatical category of the base, deverbal adjectives and denominal adjectives can be distinguished. The active or passive reading of the deverbal adjectives is usually accompanied by other interpretations such as intensity, reiteration, possibility, disposition, obligation. Deverbal adjectives retain several properties of the verbal base. Denominal adjectives establish a relation between the base noun of the formation and the noun modified by the denominal adjective. According to the relationship between the two nouns, two types of adjectives have been distinguished: qualifying adjectives and relational adjectives.
