Adjective Classes - A Cross-Linguistic Typology

258 Fiona Me Laughlin (65) Maa la gen serin isg 3plO v:surpass marabout 'I have a better marabout than you' *Maa la gena serin ( ...

10 Is there an Adjective Class in Wolof? 259 (71) Xale hi dafa naawlmfet ba dee child DBF 3Sg:VFOC ADj:ugly/ADj:pretty to die "T ...

260 Fiona Me Laughlin adjective is borrowed. Codeswitching between Wolof and French, however, is a dif- ferent matter, but one t ...

10 Is there an Adjective Class in Wolof? 261 TABLE i. A comparison of the relevant characteristics of adjectives and non- adject ...

262 Fiona Me Laughlin CREISSELS, D. 2000. 'Typology', pp. 231-58 of Heine and Nurse, 2000. CREISSELS, D. 2003. 'Adjectifs et adv ...

11 ADJECTIVES IN NORTH-EAST AMBAE Catriona Hyslop Lolovoli, North-East Ambae, Vanuatu North-East Ambae is one of two languages ...

264 Catriona Hyslop (2) No=mo gani na mena. isgSP=REAL eat ACC ripe 'I am eating a ripe (banana).' A noun can function syntactic ...

11 Adjectives in North-East Ambae 265 A verb in Ambae is defined by the fact that it can occur as the head of a VP. That is, it ...

266 Catriona Hyslop TABLE i. Sub-classes of verbs Intransitive Ambitransitive Transitive Extended transitive Stative (Adjectives ...

11 Adjectives in North-East Ambae 267 sub-classes, further distinctions can be made on the basis of options for increase in vale ...

268 Catriona Hyslop 4.1. ADJECTIVES CAN FUNCTION AS A MODIFIER IN AN NP The most significant criteria for distinguishing adjecti ...

11 Adjectives in North-East Ambae 269 formed to express such qualities of the head noun as sex, as in (11), or material which an ...

270 Catriona Hyslop However, there are differences in the meaning and function of all mood particles used for commands, and for ...

11 Adjectives in North-East Ambae 271 TABLE 3. Adjectives specified for telic aspect or realis mood garea hasi lague biti mate m ...

272 Catriona Hyslop 4.2.2. Commands There are three different moods in Ambae used for giving commands. The imper- ative is marke ...

11 Adjectives in North-East Ambae 273 (28) ?Go=bo hasi! 2sgSP=APPRE bad 'Careful, don't be/become bad!' I have no examples of an ...

274 Catriona Hyslop (33) Mwere, vanua-ra, bataha u garea u garea u garea^4 dene no. like land-3nsgP I.reckon TEL good TEL good T ...

11 Adjectives in North-East Ambae 275 which is in the state described by ADJ.' Ability for a form to be nominalized with this su ...

276 Catriona Hyslop TABLE 4. Function and distribution of valency increasing affixes Affix vaga- -Ci -gi(ni) -tagi(ni) 0 Functio ...

11 Adjectives in North-East Ambae 277 in SVCs and they all seem to be members of the semantic types DIMENSION, VALUE, as in (42) ...