Adjectives Describe a Point on a Spectrum | Wonderful Things to Do with Adjective Gradation

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What if ‘cold’, ‘luke’, and ‘warm’ were all expressed with the same adjective root, graded by different modifiers?
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Chapters:
0:00 - Introduction
1:41 - 1D Concatenative
6:28 - 2D Concatenative
9:38 - 1D Non-Concatenative
10:56 - 2D Non-Concatenative
12:12 - Further Considerations

[@EchoLog]

Adequative! Totally using that!

[@linguleum]

Thank you! ^^

[@С.Н₀]

My hot take: English "hot-warm-cool-cold" is just an extreme suppletion forms on one spectrum.

[@linguleum]

That’s a bit like saying that in the sentence “I like trains”, “trains” is the accusative of “trains” with an empty case allomorph. xD