Chaucer의 형용사 굴절 = Chaucer's Adjective Inflections

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The morphemic simplification in ME adjectives is still more dramatic than in ME nouns, for the former generally maintains only one inflectional ending from OE: "final -e." The loss of adjective inflections and grammatical gender distinctions naturally led to the lack of the grammatical concord. In spite of the loss. the distinction of singular and plural and weak inflections was preserved in ME adjective.
Chaucer's adjectives are classified into the two groups: the uninflected and the inflected. The former adjectives are the ones which ended in a vowel in OE or which became to end in a vowel in ME. The latter adjectives may be classified as follows:
1) The monosyllabic adjectives ending in a consonant are uninflected throughout the singular and inflected with the final -e throughout the plural.
2) When they are in the context of the weak declension, they are inflected throughout the singular and plural.
3) The adjectives of two or more syllables ending in -en, -el are uninflected in the singular and inflected in the plural.
4) There are found some adjectives which have a plural in -s in the postposition.
5) The traces of the OE genitive plural inflections (-er, -es) are found in several adjectives.
6) In some phrases some adjectives take -e without any of the general conditions.
7) The adjectives are inflected before a proper noun, like the vocative case.