Feature: If the answer to Attr-01 is <adjective> or <modifier>, is the adjective/modifier category an open or a closed class?

Feature URL:

https://atlas.evolvinglanguage.ch/parameters/Attr-02

Description

(By David Inman): "This feature targets whether a language has a closed or open category of nominal attributives ( or , as defined in Attr-01). Though a rare category, is included with because it is also a special lexical class which is syntactically marked as a modifier of nominals (just not only nominals). Many languages have a limited number of adjectives, and use other parts of speech (often verbs) for other attributive properties. If the adjective class was not mentioned in sources as being a limited set, we assumed during coding that the category was open...❡

In addition to having a small, closed category of adjectives, a language can have two adjective categories: one of which is closed, and one of which is open. In such languages, it is meaningful to refer to the adjective category as split into an open category and a closed category. An example of such a language is French [stan1290] (Indo-European; world), where a small class of adjectives occur before the noun they modify (mostly adjectives referring to the semantics of age, size, and sometimes value), while the much larger, open class of adjectives occur after the noun they modify. This is a mixed state, which we have called ."