An alternative explanation however may rest on the fact that Bem's Sex Role Inventory (1981) uses adjectives representing masculine and feminine gender identities that were selected 35 years ago and, therefore, do not accurately portray male and female entrepreneurs today.
They studied attitudes among college students towards the mentally ill using a scale containing pairs of adjectives representing opposites, such as "valuable - worthless, clean - dirty, predictable - unpredictable, etcetera".
Several logicians opted for what Jevons calls the "indeterminate adjective" 'some', represented symbolically by 'V'.
In addition, they were told that, on every trial, before the offer they would see a trait adjective which represented personal characteristics of their partner for that trial, gathered from several questionnaires, and that these may or may not be related to the offer the partners made.
Now you can replace verbs, nouns, and adjectives with whoever represents them best.
Semantic differential scales contain adjective pairs that represent perceptual qualities, each of which indicates large or small perceptual quality values.
Vocabulary, in terms of content words (nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs) is examined in terms of how it represents an initiation into scientific discourse.
Talk, of course, isn't even from Latin, but the friendly -ative suffix clung to it anyway, by analogy with other verbs that form adjectives by appending -ative, like affirm and affirmative, or represent and representative.
For many, the adjectives "new" and "contemporary" signify a certain style of music -- a music that represents a tradition of experimentation that began a hundred years ago, and was revitalized in the Cold War Era.
