ABSTRACT
There are several features that are often considered characteristic of adjectives, but that are nevertheless insufficient to fully delimit the set of adjectives. For instance, many adjectives can be used both in prenominal attributive and in clause-final predicative position, as is illustrated for aardig ‘nice’ in, respectively, (1a) and (1a'). However, given that this does not hold for all adjectives, the ability to be used in these positions is not a necessary condition for calling something an adjective: deksels and onwel in the (b)- and (c)-examples are normally considered adjectives despite the fact that the former can only be used attributively and the latter can only be used predicatively.
