What are adjectives of permanent state and adjectives that represent state change?


In the question [What's the difference between wa (は) and ga
(が)?](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/22/whats-the-difference-
between-wa-%E3%81%AF-and-ga-%E3%81%8C), the answerer mentioned these
adjectives in their explanation of exhaustive-listing が and neutral
description が.

> For predicates with stative verbs or **adjectives/nominal-adjectives of
> permanent states** , が can only be interpreted as **exhaustive-listing**.

> but **neutral description** only works with action verbs, existential verbs,
> and **adjectives/nominal adjectives that represent state change**.

As an example, say someone noticed that the sea is beautiful and said,
「海がきれい」. Since the speaker just noticed that the sea is beautiful, this falls
under the neutral descriptive meaning of が. But where is the "state change"
that the adjective きれい represents?




中上級を教える人のための日本語文法ハンドブック lists the following sentence as an example of neutral
description (中立叙述) with が and an adjective.

> (2) （登山で山頂に着いたとき）あー、空気がうまい。

The explanations are as follows.

> ◆「が」が中立叙述になるのは次のような場合です。  
>
> ◆第一は(1)や(2)のように何かを発見してそのまま述べる場合です。これは基本的に話しことばに限られます。この場合のテンスは基本的に現在ですが、次のようにタ形が来ることもあります。  
>  
>  (7) あっ、バスが来た。

>
> ◆初級編§27で見たように、述語が形容詞の場合には「は」が使われるのが普通ですが、(2)や(9)のような五官で感じたことをそのまま述べる場合には中立叙述の「が」が使われます。  
>  
>  (9) （真冬に外に出た瞬間）風が冷たい。

Your example of 海がきれい falls in the same category. きれい itself must be an
“adjective of permanent states,” and therefore, is indeed usually used with は,
as in 花子はきれいだ.

I don’t know what adjectives truly qualify as “adjectives that represent state
change.” This definition seems misleading. The only explanation I can come up
with that uses the term "state change" is something like the きれい in 海がきれい
reflects a "state change" that has happened in the speaker’s mind, unlike in
花子はきれいだ.




中上級を教える人のための日本語文法ハンドブック lists the following sentence as an example of neutral
description (中立叙述) with が and an adjective.

> (2) （登山で山頂に着いたとき）あー、空気がうまい。

The explanations are as follows.

> ◆「が」が中立叙述になるのは次のような場合です。  
>
> ◆第一は(1)や(2)のように何かを発見してそのまま述べる場合です。これは基本的に話しことばに限られます。この場合のテンスは基本的に現在ですが、次のようにタ形が来ることもあります。  
>  
>  (7) あっ、バスが来た。

>
> ◆初級編§27で見たように、述語が形容詞の場合には「は」が使われるのが普通ですが、(2)や(9)のような五官で感じたことをそのまま述べる場合には中立叙述の「が」が使われます。  
>  
>  (9) （真冬に外に出た瞬間）風が冷たい。

Your example of 海がきれい falls in the same category. きれい itself must be an
“adjective of permanent states,” and therefore, is indeed usually used with は,
as in 花子はきれいだ.

I don’t know what adjectives truly qualify as “adjectives that represent state
change.” This definition seems misleading. The only explanation I can come up
with that uses the term "state change" is something like the きれい in 海がきれい
reflects a "state change" that has happened in the speaker’s mind, unlike in
花子はきれいだ.

