Adjective Classes - A Cross-Linguistic Typology
198 R. M. W. Dixon DIXON, R. M. W. 2oooa. 'A-constructions and O-constructions in Jarawara', International Journal of American L ...
8 THE RUSSIAN ADJECTIVE: A PERVASIVE YET ELUSIVE CATEGORY 1 Greville G. Corbett Introduction Russian undoubtedly has a class of ...
2oo Greville G. Corbett (1977). Aspect is tackled in Comrie (1976) and Timberlake (1985). For word order, see Yokoyama (1986) an ...
8 The Russian Adjective 201 are noun-like rather than verb-like. Typical adjectives also occur as agreeing modi- fiers within th ...
2O2 Greville G. Corbett (4) Distribution and expression of morphosyntactic features (Vonen 1997: 69) Case Number Gender Animacy ...
8 The Russian Adjective 203 owing to pervasive syncretisms. The most interesting of these concerns the accu- sative case, where ...
2O4 Greville G. Corbett certainties (Zaliznjak 1977: 58). This is an indicator of the insecure status of the short form for some ...
8 The Russian Adjective 205 mation is available in attributive and predicative use. There is also a suffixal super- lative, now ...
206 Greville G. Corbett The choice of the short form or the long form is a complex issue that requires more extensive treatment ...
8 The Russian Adjective 207 having an adverb as predicate and/or as belonging to the 'Category of State'.^8 Postu- lating such a ...
2o8 Greville G. Corbett instrumental case. (Unless the copula is the verb byt' 'be' in the present tense, which is zero, when th ...
8 The Russian Adjective 209 (15) Vs-e star-oe plox-o, vs-e all-NEUT.SG old-(Lp)NEUT.SG bad-(sp).NEUT.SG all-NEUT.SG nov-oe xoros ...
no Greville G. Corbett (17) Vy videl-i 2.PL Saw-PL 'you saw' (18) Vy bol'n-y 2.PLill-(sp)pL 'you are ill' In terms of agreement ...
8 The Russian Adjective 211 The data argue in favour of a continuum from verb to noun, with the short form closer to the verb an ...
212 Greville G. Corbett alternative source is Ilola and Mustajoki (1989: 7), using 98,728 items, based on Zaliznjak(i977). (24) ...
8 The Russian Adjective 213 the examples), but will focus on two areas of special interest: the COLOUR type, since Russian has p ...
214 Greville G. Corbett for BLUE (a possibility noted by Berlin and Kay 1969: 99). This gives an invento- ry of twelve basic ter ...
8 The Russian Adjective 215 10.8. DIFFICULTY Legkij 'easy', trudnyj 'difficult', prostoj 'simple', sloznyj 'complex'. 10.9. SIMI ...
216 Greville G. Corbett is masculine and neuter, while dve is feminine). Tri 'three' and cetyre 'four' show no agreement in gend ...
8 The Russian Adjective 217 The possessive adjective has some inflections which are phonologically distinct from other adjective ...
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