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The purpose of this paper is to investigate the processes of the meaning specification of predicative adjectives in English and their effects on the corresponding forms in Korean. The three facets of meaning specifications for English adjectives are proposed in this paper. The first facet concerns the specification of dimensions for multidimensional adjectives, which is composed of the choice of suitable prepositional phrases in English and the nominal or verbal equivalents in Korean. The second facet in English concerns the specification of animacy. The English adjectives have three inherent degrees of animacy for subjects, which have an effect on the choice of different adjectives in Korean. The third facet concerns the specification of markedness for unmarked adjectives in English, which is made by the use of how-interrogatives or measure phrases. The specification of unmarkedness in Korean is done by the use of nominal expressions in Korean