Adjective classes : a cross-linguistic typology

By R. Dixon, A. I. Aĭkhenvalʹd. 2004

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The myth of language universals: language diversity and its importance for cognitive science. (2009, background): “There are also languages like Lao with no adjective class, encoding property concepts as a sub-sub-type of verbs (Enfield 2004).”
Current Emotion Research in the Language Sciences (2012, background): “…applicative li:-, resulting in a meaning of ‘that causes the emotion expressed by V;’ for example, the intransitive verb ma:xanán ‘s/he is ashamed’ becomes li:ma:caná ‘that causes shame, shameful’ (see contributions in Dixon & Aikhenvald, 2006, for examples of how other languages code emotions).”
Language to Action: Towards Interactive Task Learning with Physical Agents (2018, methodology): “Motivated by the typology for adjectives [Dixon and Aikhenvald, 2006], we have identiﬁed eighteen dimensions of physical change (i.e., physical causality categories) such as size, shape, color, texture, visibility, so-lidity, temperature , and attachment , etc.”