I am alone (without others) but not lonely (without others or alone and unhappy as a result of it). Alone means without the company of others, without anyone around. Alone is a predicative adjective, ...

A few words are first said about the well-known difficulty of drawing a hard and fast line between various grammatical categories. Then follows an account of some types of complements and attributes ...

Previous metaphor studies have paid much attention to nominal metaphors and predicative metaphors, but little attention has been given to adjective metaphors. Although some studies have focused on ...