Adjective Classes - A Cross-Linguistic Typology
158 Paulette Levy (22) DIMENSION lanka' 'big, tall' lhma:n 'long' PHYSICAL PROPERTY palha' 'hard' chichi 'hot' ci'ci 'warm' xku' ...
6 Adjectives in Papantla Totonac 159 spi'nini 'light red, pink' (pi'n = hot pepper, chile) smalala 'dark, brown (peoples skin) I ...
160 Paulette Levy The items for 'circular' and for 'round, oval' show that originally the suffixes had different shades of meani ...
6 Adjectives in Papantla Totonac 161 (c) Misantla (MacKay 1999)' /hun-puu-suku'k/ 'there is a small hole' /hun-puu-xuku'k/ 'ther ...
162 Paulette Levy pa:-lanka' kilh-lanka' qi:-lanka' -cii: ak-cii: pu:lak-cu: qi:-cu: tu:-cu: kilhtu:-cu: qalhtu:-cu: ti:-cu: pa: ...
6 Adjectives in Papantla Totonac 163 Each of the three basic DIMENSION adjectives employs a different nominal plural suffix and, ...
164 Paulette Levy (32) tantum qu:lu pa'xni tan-turn qu:lu pa'xni NUMCL:animal-one male pig 'A male pig.' lakcu'majdn chichi'ni:n ...
6 Adjectives in Papantla Totonac 165 *chi'xku chiwi-.ndn Juan *xachi'xku chiwi-.ndn Juan (36) snu:n qu-.luta kimpapa snu:n qu:lu ...
166 Paulette Levy Beck (2000: 237) suggests, for UNT, that the terms for 'young' and 'old' were originally adjectives that have ...
6 Adjectives in Papantla Totonac 167 liaqatu'y 'untrustworthy, dangerous' (liaqatu'yun 's/he worries about something') ta-li:pa: ...
168 Paulette Levy (b) De verbal cha'la:-wa greasy' cha'la Vintr 'it secretes grease' chi't-wa 'damp' chi'ta Vtr 's/he squeezes i ...
6 Adjectives in Papantla Totonac 169 (43) kp'aqlhni:t mi-xa:lu k-p'aqlh-ni:tan min-xa:lu i-break(Vtrans)-PF iposs-cup 'I have br ...
ijo Paulette Levy The non-agentive suffix -n is also used to derive inchoative intransitive verbs from nouns, for events that ha ...
6 Adjectives in Papantla Totonac 171 (47) (a) qu'n (adj) 'fat, flabby' qu'n 'P gets fat' maqa-qu'n 'A does something, and as a r ...
172 Paulette Levy To sum up, we have seen two types of semantic evidence for an adjective cat- egory in PT. The first came from ...
TABLE 2. Morphological types and best exemplars (both morphologically and syntactically regular) vs. classes with peculiarities ...
174 Paulette Levy of weather conditions constitutes an extremely rich semantic field, all of its items being verbs and their der ...
6 Adjectives in Papantla Totonac 175 AMEKA, F. 1991. 'Adjectives—the coding of qualities', ch. 5 of Ewe: its grammatical constru ...
176 Paulette Levy McQuowN, N. A. [1940] 1990. Gramdtica de la lengua totonaca (Coatepec, Sierra Norte de Pueblo). Mexico: UNAM. ...
7 THE SMALL ADJECTIVE CLASS IN JARAWARA R. M. W. Dixon Jarawara has a small closed class of adjectives, for which fourteen membe ...
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