Timeline for In what way is the negative form of a verb an adjective?
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| Nov 3, 2013 at 8:58 | comment | added | dainichi | @snailboat, interesting observations. 無さ definitely exists. み is not fully productive for い-adjectives either (e.g. *早み doesn't exist), so not sure 無い is a special case. I think you might be right about め. | |
| Nov 2, 2013 at 17:11 | comment | added | user1478 | Could the problem with 食べなさ be inherited from ない as well? I was under the impression that -さ, -み, and -め can't attach to the adjective ない. I've been trying to figure this out, and it seems to me like maybe the main difference between 助動詞「ない」 and 形容詞「無い」 is that the latter can't appear in ないで. | |
| Mar 26, 2012 at 2:30 | history | answered | dainichi | CC BY-SA 3.0 |