ABSTRACT
This chapter examines derivational morphology involving adjectives as base. It discusses general problems regarding argument structure of adjectives in English followed by discussion on how argument structure is reflected in the nominalization and the compound formation of adjectives. There are two morphological classes of adjectives in Japanese, often referred to as adjectives and adjectival nouns. As is the case with English adjectives, a number of Japanese adjectives are one-place predicates. The chapter discusses two kinds of nominalizing suffixes for Japanese adjectives, and aims to point out some theoretical consequences of the observation made about them. It also examines the verbalizing suffix -garu, which has some interesting properties. Morphologically, the suffix -garu changes an adjective into a verb. Phrasal suffixation involves only a specific set of suffixes that are productive and show little idiosyncracy. The cases of complement inheritance found with adjective nominalization do not share this property.
