Speranza
Grice was fascinated by adjectives. His examples don't proliferate, though!
-- The dog is shaggy
was his example.
He chose 'shaggy' after that idiom, 'a shaggy-dog story'.
He formulates adjectives in "Way of Words" as "beta". Thus, "The dog is shaggy" becomes, rightly,
"The alpha is beta".
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