Adjective Classes - A Cross-Linguistic Typology
178 R. M. W. Dixon clause. At an earlier stage, there was dependent-marking (involving an accusative suffix on an NP) but this h ...
7 The Small Adjective Class in Jarawara 179 (1) [jobe]s {0 hawa to-he} house(m) 3sg.inanS be.finished AWAY-AUXiLiARY:m 'the hous ...
i8o R. M. W. Dixon TABLE i. Pronominal forms in Jarawara isg 2Sg 3sg.animate 3 inanimate msg.inc msg.exc 2nsg 3nsg. animate owa ...
7 The Small Adjective Class in Jarawara 181 mati > mai > mee. (The form mai is used in the Jamamadi dialect and in Jarawar ...
182 R. M. W. Dixon Verbs show various modes of productive reduplication (see Dixon and Vogel 1996); initial CV- reduplication oc ...
7 The Small Adjective Class in Jarawara 183 PNs in Jarawara cover a wide semantic range: Orientation (17 members) include mese/ ...
184 R- M. W. Dixon TABLE 2. Structure of the noun phrase A. Alienable possessor, an embedded NP, plus possessive marker kaa (kin ...
7 The Small Adjective Class in Jarawara 185 TABLE 3. Gender on the PN in an NP with one PN NP head m free noun f free noun isgo- ...
186 R. M. W. Dixon TABLE 4. Gender on PNs in an NP with two or more PNs Gender of Gender of NP head m free noun f free noun isgo ...
7 The Small Adjective Class in Jarawara 187 (6) [borokoo howe]cs {mee ama-ke} pirarucu(m) large.type 3nsgCS be-DECLARATiVE:f 'th ...
188 R. M. W. Dixon Typical examples ofone/owa functioning as an adjective are (7-8). (7) [okasima one-m]o [Towija[A[iti] isgPOSS ...
7 The Small Adjective Class in Jarawara 189 (12) [mee.fanawi hinama]s{n-ine-ke} women(f) all bathe AUXILIARY-CONTINUOUS-DECLARAT ...
190 R. M. W. Dixon Table 5 surveys for Jarawara the semantic types typically associated with an adjective class. Note that no le ...
7 The Small Adjective Class in Jarawara 191 a description courageous' involves the PN habi/habo 'aerial root, tendon, used in th ...
192 R. M. W. Dixon (20) [bani ehebotee tone]cs {ama-ka} animal(m) big bone be-DECLARATiVE:m 'they are the bones of a big animal' ...
7 The Small Adjective Class in Jarawara 193 Or it can have a second argument, in what we call copula complement function; this c ...
194 R- M. W. Dixon Note that we cannot get PN-plus-mee. That is, *jara teme mee is ungrammatical. (This is a consequence of the ...
7 The Small Adjective Class in Jarawara 195 (35) [ee taboro one] and not *[ee taboro owa] insg.incpossESSOR village:m other:f ot ...
196 R. M. W. Dixon circumstances but like a PN in some (for example, following augment modifier mee within an NP). And the PN ko ...
7 The Small Adjective Class in Jarawara 197 or cooked involves two adjectives (faff and kini) and three verbs (-hata-, -kaha- an ...
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