What is the meaning of this excerpt!

[SeekerOfPeace]

This is from my Chinese grammar book. Could anyone intensively vulgarize the following excerpt so it can be understood by mere mortals?

Apart from differences in syntactic function and in syllabicity, which directly

affects collocability,2 adjectives also differ in many other respects: qualifiers vs

quantifiers, gradable vs non-gradable, conditional vs unconditional, derivable

vs non-derivable, reduplicable vs non-reduplicable, phonaesthetic vs nonphonaesthetic,

derogatory vs commendatory, and so on.

[gato]

Aside from meaning and the number of syllables, which affect how and where adjectives can be used, Chinese adjectives also differ in other respects:

- qualifiers vs quantifiers,

- gradable vs non-gradable,

- conditional vs unconditional,

- derivable vs non-derivable,

- reduplicable vs non-reduplicable,

- phonaesthetic vs nonphonaesthetic,

- derogatory vs commendatory, and

- so on.

Thank you very much.

[SeekerOfPeace]

Thank god for that!

Funny how the meaning is so simple but the form so much more complex.