A Grammar of Madurese

64 Chapter 3 Lexical categories (6) banne tolesan ‘no written thing’ banne kapenterran ‘no intelligence’ Second, uninflected nou ...

Open class categories 65 (9) kabbi bengko ‘all the houses’ kabbi saba ‘all the fields’ sabban bapa' ‘each father’ kabbi baca kab ...

66 Chapter 3 Lexical categories b. Aba'na se sala. he/she REL wrong ‘He/she is who is wrong.’ (14) a. Oreng rowa guru. person th ...

Open class categories 67 (16) Oreng rowa se daddi guru. person that REL become teacher ‘That person is who is a teacher.’ (17) S ...

68 Chapter 3 Lexical categories As these data show, only toles ‘write’, buwang ‘discard’, mole ‘go home’, and entar ‘go’, all of ...

Open class categories 69 b. *Mored reya bisa sake'. student this can ill c. *Mored reya bisa kene'. student this can small (23) ...

70 Chapter 3 Lexical categories nase' ‘rice’ nase'e bengko ‘house’ bengkowe mored ‘student’ *moredi It is not the case that the ...

Open class categories 71 (25) a. Kapala-na ta' tao jawab. head-DEF not know answer ‘The head does not know the answer.’ b. Ale' ...

72 Chapter 3 Lexical categories (30) Se tao jawab Ali. REL know answer Ali ‘The one who knows the answer is Ali.’ (31) Se kowat ...

Open class categories 73 number of grammatical properties. There are, however, some ways in which the two seem to differ. Adject ...

74 Chapter 3 Lexical categories (36) bengko raja ‘large house’^13 koceng koros 'skinny cat’ mored penter ‘smart student’ bengko ...

Open class categories 75 reason that only these types of lexical items can occur in comparative and su- perlative constructions ...

76 Chapter 3 Lexical categories modifiers. In the end the issue could well boil down to whether one is predisposed to recognize ...

Open class categories 77 b. Adi ngaca. Adi AV.glass ‘Adi looked in the mirror.’ (42) a. Sengko' lo' andhi' sapo. I not have broo ...

78 Chapter 3 Lexical categories Closed class categories 2.1 Adverbs: straddling the open/closed dichotomy Adverb straddles the ...

Closed class categories 79 Although adverbs can take various positions in the sentence, temporal, epistem- ic, and frequency adv ...

80 Chapter 3 Lexical categories (56) Hasan maca buku on-laon-an. Hasan AV.read book RED-slow-AN ‘Hasan read the book slowly.’ (5 ...

Closed class categories 81 (62) a. Bapa' dhang-khadang pasthe a-lumbur. father sometimes must AV-work.late ‘Father sometimes has ...

82 Chapter 3 Lexical categories (65) Aba'na toron dhari jaran. he/she descend from horse ‘He/she got off the horse.’ 2.4 Pronoun ...

Closed class categories 83 determines whether it is to be interpreted as first, second, or third person. The alternative is to c ...