• The following sections of A Comprehensive Grammar of The English Language (Randolph Quirk, Sidney Greenbaum, Geoffrey Leech, Jan Svartik, Longman, London & New York, 1985) were consulted in preparing this entry:
Characteristics of the adjective
§7.1, 402
Four criteria for adjectives
§7.2, 402-3
Central and peripheral adjectives
§§7.3, 7.4; 403-4
Adjectives and adverbs beginning with a-
§§7.10, 7.11; 408-9
Adjectives and participles
§§7.15, 7.16, 7.17; 7.18. 7.19; 413-16