Adjective Classes - A Cross-Linguistic Typology
278 Catriona Hyslop (43) Ne=u laka-laka, netu-ku mo rada. 2nsgSP=TEL REDUP-make.noise child-isgP REAL wake 'You (all) made a lot ...
11 Adjectives in North-East Ambae 279 (51) Maresu ngihie mo bei dige. child that REAL just walk "That child has just (started to ...
28o Catriona Hyslop are verbs. In other cases, such as SPEED, all words of that semantic type are mem- bers of a word class othe ...
11 Adjectives in North-East Ambae 281 head of an NP. Also they can be derived with the causative prefix vaga- to form a multipli ...
282 Catriona Hyslop 9 Adjectives as predicate vs. attribute While all adjectives can modify the head noun in an NP, it is import ...
12 ADJECTIVES IN SEMELAI Nicole Kruspe Introduction Semelai is a Southern Aslian language (Benjamin 1976). Aslian languages be ...
284 Nicole Kruspe TABLE i. Word classes and prototypical and derived functions Nominal Head of NP dyl 'house' Attributive Modifi ...
12 Adjectives in Semelai 285 extending this to include verbs (G. Diffloth, pc), e.g. the regular verb cjhy 'to roast' is replace ...
286 Nicole Kruspe (2) pydyrj ki=tikam Ia=k3nbk nm bmey tiger 3A=stab A=husband with spear "The husband stabbed the tiger with th ...
12 Adjectives in Semelai 287 2.5. NOMINAL SYNTAX Semelai is a right branching language. All modifiers excluding the Quantifier P ...
288 Nicole Kruspe number of subtle differences, e.g. different possibilities both within the predicate slot and as modifiers wit ...
12 Adjectives in Semelai 289 3.1.1. Semantic overlap Thirteen semantic types are listed in Dixon (Ch. i), of which ten are prese ...
290 Nicole Kruspe derives the diminutive, fcef 'be small' > kit 'really tiny'. The 'negative' term under- goes vowel alterna ...
12 Adjectives in Semelai 291 (16) kddop raf-fVv, /can/on par-jiih fontanelle coMP-be.big child xs-be.ill '(If) a bigger (than no ...
292 Nicole Kruspe TABIE4. Examples of Class 3 adjectives with antonyms Positive term Negative term paret 'be hot (weather)' from ...
12 Adjectives in Semelai 293 Grammatical properties We will now examine some of the morphological and syntactic properties pec ...
294 Nicole Kruspe TABLE 5. The range of functions of coda copy Root Active transitive verb sec 'to steal' Active intransitive ve ...
12 Adjectives in Semelai 295 TABLE 6. Summary of verb type and semantic result of light syllable reduplication Verb type Light s ...
296 Nicole Kruspe 4.2.1. Attributive modifier Adjectives modify nouns, including deverbal nouns as in (25)-(26), but not pro- no ...
12 Adjectives in Semelai 297 (31) S3ma? psr people fly 'flying people' (32) resfies, rih dshq khsbss twig branch tree die 'twigs ...
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