A Grammar of Madurese

204 Chapter 7 Nominals and noun phrases (100) Na'-kana' bine’ ka-lema rowa maca buku. RED-child female KA-five that AV.read book ...

Measure phrases 205 Ordinal numbers are formed in one of two ways. One is to use ka- peng,which marks ordinality, before the car ...

206 Chapter 7 Nominals and noun phrases (111) Sengko' parlo bensin lema liter. I need gasoline five liter ‘I need five liters of ...

Adjectival modification 207 (117) a. Kaka' ngakan geddhang pettong biggi'. eld.brother AV.eat banana seven seed ‘Big Brother ate ...

208 Chapter 7 Nominals and noun phrases (123) Ina melle bengko se anyar. Ina AV.buy house REL new ‘Ina bought a new house.’ Ther ...

Adjectival modification 209 attributively and usually occur in relative clause modifiers of nouns, as in (130b) and (131b). (130 ...

210 Chapter 7 Nominals and noun phrases In (134), the intensive adjective ce' tenggina ‘very tall’ is part of a sequence of adje ...

Nominalizations and clausal NPs 211 (138) Bambang maca buku se e meja. Bambang AV.read book REL at table ‘Bambang read the book ...

212 Chapter 7 Nominals and noun phrases (144) Pa-noles-sa Kaka' laon. NOM-AV.write-DEF eld.brother slow ‘Big Brother wrote slowl ...

Nominalizations and clausal NPs 213 created by the agent, here Diyah Thus, only nyaman ‘delicious’ is an appropri- ate descripti ...

214 Chapter 7 Nominals and noun phrases ogy. Largely, these are clauses without overt subjects, as in (154) and (155). (154) Mac ...

Constituent order in NPs 215 In (157), the adjective koros ‘thin’, which modifies the head N koceng ‘cat’, follows the possessor ...

216 Chapter 7 Nominals and noun phrases Modified adjectives obligatorily occur in a relative clause following the posses- sor, a ...

Constituent order in NPs 217 Most speakers prefer the variants with the relative clause. When an adjective cooccurs with a demon ...

218 Chapter 7 Nominals and noun phrases c. Koceng (se) celleng ban koros juwa lo' tedhung. cat REL black and thin that not sleep ...

Constituent order in NPs 219 In (173a) the prepositional phrase or relative clause precedes the demonstrative rowa, and in (173b ...

220 Chapter 7 Nominals and noun phrases orderings follow. In an NP containing PP and relative clause modifiers with a demonstrat ...

Constituent order in NPs 221 b. Mored-da Pa' Hadi pa-petto' bakal lulus tes. student-DEF Mr Hadi RED-seven will pass test ‘Pak H ...

222 Chapter 7 Nominals and noun phrases (180) a. Ceng-koceng celleng koros juwa lo' tedhung. RED-cat black thin that not sleep ' ...

Constituent order in NPs 223 Finally, although some of the data here have come from recorded speech, examples of NPs with more t ...