### Adjectives and adverbs

- List of tags
- Colors
- Comparative adjectives and adverbs
  - Positive vs. comparative
  - (N)EVER THE ADJR/ADVR (see EVER)
- Superlative adjectives and adverbs
- Adjectives as apparent heads of NP (THE POOR, THE RICH)
- Compass point adjectives (EASTERN, NORTHERN, SOUTHERN, WESTERN)
- Ordinal numbers
- R-pronoun THERE- (THEREFORE, THEREUPON, etc.)
- R-pronoun WHERE-

(WHEREFORE, WHEREUPON, etc.) (see R-pronoun THERE)
- Treatment of individual words
  - ALSWA
  - ANE (see ONE)
  - AS, SO (degree)
  - AS WELL AS
  - ASSWA
  - DOWNWARD
  - ENOUGH
  - EVEN
  - EVER
  - FAR
  - FAST
  - FIRST
  - ILKE
  - INWARD
  - LAST
  - LEAST
  - LESS
  - LITTLE
  - LONG
  - MORE
  - MOST
  - MUCH
  - NEAR
  - NEVER
  - NEXT
  - NIGH (see NEAR)
  - ONE
  - OUTWARD
  - PASSING
  - SO (degree)
  - SUCH
  - THEREFORE
  - THILKE
  - TOO
  - UPWARD
  - WORTH

  #### List of tags

  ADJ | adjective
  ADJR | adjective, comparative
  ADJS | adjective, superlative
  ADV | adverb
  ADVR | adverb, comparative
  ADVS | adverb, superlative

  | The following items are not treated as adjectives: unmodified participles (VAG loving, VAN blessed) participles with modifying adverb (ADV+VAG everlasting) participles with modifying noun (NPR+VAN God-forsaken) fused forms with the distribution of phrases (P+N asleep) The following items are treated as compound adjectives: adjectives modified by degree OVER (ADVR+ADJ overproud)

  We distinguish positive, comparative, and superlative adjectives and adverbs.

  The complements of copular verbs are tagged as `ADJ`, not `ADV`.

  #### Colors

  The basic tag for color terms is `ADJ.` There are some exceptions, such the white of an egg, where the color term is tagged `N.`

  #### Comparative adjectives and adverbs

  >     Thenne_ADV quene_NPR Igrayne_NPR waxid_VBD dayly_ADV
  >     gretter_ADJR and_CONJ gretter_ADJR ._.

  >     he_PRO lovithe_VBP Arthure_NPR bettir_ADVR than_P us_PRO ;_.

  Degree words are treated as comparatives. See AS, SO (degree), ENOUGH, OVER, and TOO for detailed discussion.

  #### Positive vs. comparative

  Apparently comparative forms that lack an adjectival base are tagged as `ADJ` rather than `ADJR` (unless construed with a THAN phrase or clause).

  > FORMER, INNER, NETHER, OUTER, UPPER

  LATER is tagged `ADJ` when not clearly comparative. For unclear cases, the default is `ADJR`.

  LATTER is ordinarily tagged `ADJ`, but in early texts it functions as the ordinary comparative of LATE (later replaced by the innovative LATER) and is then tagged `ADJR`.

  LOWER is tagged as `ADJ` when the counterpart of UPPER, and as `ADJR` when the counterpart of HIGHER. For unclear cases, the default is `ADJR`.

  #### Superlative adjectives and adverbs

  >     in_P the_D grettest_ADJS chirch_N of_P London_NPR

  >     and_CONJ than_ADV every_Q knyght_N toke_VBD the_D way_N
  >     that_C hym_PRO lyked_VBD beste_ADVS ._.

  #### Ordinal numbers

  Ordinal numbers are tagged `ADJ`. FIRST also has an adverbial use.

  >     +te_D thrid_ADJ day_N of_P +tat_D solempnyte_N

  >     &_CONJ +t=e=_D elleueneth_ADJ assembled_VBD a_D gret_ADJ power_N

  Cases where an ordinal might be expected but without overt ordinal marking are treated as cardinal numbers (NUM).