Adjective Classes - A Cross-Linguistic Typology
298 Nicole Kruspe 4.2.4. Adjectives as predicates Adjectives function as intransitive predicates. Ordering maybe predicate final ...
12 Adjectives in Semelai 299 (45) daf fief csy jstek NEC be.long at.all sleep '(It) wasn't long at all (that she) slept.' (46) d ...
3oo Nicole Kruspe da? bbeh 'not much, not very', da? bbeh ?bp (NEC more be.far) 'not very far' C3my? 'increasingly, more', csmy? ...
12 Adjectives in Semelai 301 Intransitive verbs and derived intransitive verbs may also function as V 2 : suwak kdtnkhom (go sit ...
TABLE 7. Summary of morphological and syntactic properties of adjectives and other verbs Morphological properties: Nominalizatio ...
12 Adjectives in Semelai 303 system, e.g. bafcafor, p3T3nhh 'white', g3bktak, hayoy 'black', lanhn, nbvk, ka<?>bs? (< k ...
304 Nicole Kruspe database include DIMENSION, COLOUR, PHYSICAL PROPERTY, DISTANCE, SPEED, and QUANTITY, e.g. the quantity expres ...
12 Adjectives in Semelai 305 When both an adjective and verb modify an NP, the adjective precedes the ver- bal modifier: (64) kd ...
13 ADJECTIVES IN QIANG Randy J. LaPolla and Chenglong Huang Introduction Qiang is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken by 70,000-80 ...
13 Adjectives in Qiang 307 inite markers, many can act as adverbials (taking the adverbial particle /-jii/), and many can take t ...
308 Randy J. LaPolla and Chenglong Huang For ordinals higher than 'third', the cardinal numbers plus classifiers are used as or- ...
13 Adjectives in Qiang 309 the case of those loanwords that take the native verb /pa/, the prefixes are added to this verb, as i ...
3io Randy J. LaPolla and Chenglong Huang For this usage, usually only one of the eight prefixes is regularly used, but which pre ...
13 Adjectives in Qiang 311 Person marking takes the same forms and has the same meaning as with non-stat- ive verbs: (10) (a) qa ...
312 Randy J. LaPolla and Chenglong Huang (b) qa fu-fiiki ma-wa. (< ba) ISg 2Sg-COMPAR NEG-big:lSg 'I am not as big as you are ...
13 Adjectives in Qiang 313 (17) (a) the: byz su m tshimpe wa. 3sg book study LOG smart very 'She is very good at her studies.' ( ...
314 Randy J. LaPolla and Chenglong Huang Certain auxiliaries relate to the ability of an actor (e.g. /yz^a/ for learned ability, ...
13 Adjectives in Qiang 315 (24) (a) fiiq 'black' + le: DEF:CL > fiiqle: 'the black one' (b) ba 'big' + te: DEF:CL > bate: ...
316 Randy J. LaPolla and Chenglong Huang 5 Functioning as modifier of a noun An adjective can modify a noun either in the form o ...
13 Adjectives in Qiang 317 (3i) (a) (c) (e) (g) (i) Kuafya lapa ba bowl flowery big 'big colourful bowl' fa phi$ ba clothing whi ...
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