期刊名称：Celt: A Journal of Culture, English Language Teaching & Literature
印刷版ISSN：1412-3320
电子版ISSN：2502-4914
出版年度：2007
卷号：7
期号：1
页码：25-35
DOI：10.24167/celt.v7i1.151
语种：English
出版社：Soegijapranata Catholic University
摘要：This paper discusses the development of adjectives in Old English, Middle English, and Modern English. In the discussion it is found that the Old English'adjectives had inflectional modification to indicate numbers, genders, cases, and degrees of comparisons, and there was a distinction of weak and strong declensions. In Middle English, most of the declensional distinctions were lost, the general tendency of the language being to drop all suffixes. Adjectives in Modem English do not change their fomlS to show changes in number. case, or gender; and onl), afew adjectives o/the pronominal class possess meanings which indicate number. One, and every, each modify singular nouns while several. few. many modif), only plural substantives. I" Modem English no adjective is capable of indicating gender or case.
关键词：adjective; inflection; declension; gender; case
