Detail #384: Making Adjectives more Dynamic

One word class that sometimes does not get all the love it deserves is adjectives. Sometimes, they are just made a special type of verbs (or barely even special, at that), and sometimes they are conflated with nouns.

I have previously suggested a language that splits them in two new classes but I imagine there may be other things to do with them.

Let's make something like cases but exclusively for adjectives, that operate separately from the cases of nouns.

Here's a few such cases:

1. Qualitative

The basic use of an adjective: tells us something about the noun. Can appear both as subject and complement:

I am hungry
the red house

2. Translative

Much like how this case is used in Finnish on both adjectives and nouns, it expresses a quality the noun acquires. Unlike in Finnish, however, this can mark an NP that is undergoing a transition due to the verb:

hungry-TRNSL wolf ran
the wolf ran (and therefore got hungry)
"the wolf ran itself hungry"

3. Terminative-translative

Like the translative, but restricts the verb's time span or aspect:

tired-TT man worked
the man worked until he got tired

4. Essive

Qualitative, but restricts timespans:

you can come to the new open-ess store
you can come to the new store when it's open

old-ess you can sleep
you can sleep when you're old

It can also inform about cause:

I hated the new loud-ess guitarist

 5.  Post-essive:

Marks 'after being', or direct cause:

small-PE you will have to pay taxes
I saw the shiny-PE clothing