Adjective Classes - A Cross-Linguistic Typology

338 N. I. Enfield The comparative particle can be used in combination with mum '(member of) group' to create a superlative expre ...

14 Adjectives in Lao 339 4.5. INCHOATIVIZATION OF ADJECTIVES USING DIRECTIONAL COMPLEMENTS There is variation within adjectives ...

34Q N. J. Enfield Rather, one says hoon4 khun$ [hot ascend] get hotter'. The degree and nature of the systematicity of these pat ...

14 Adjectives in Lao 341 'early morning', suajs 'late morning', vem 'daytime', and dek2 'late at night' behave like adjectives ( ...

342 N. J. Enfield nominal, derived from nouns (e.g. faa4 'sky; blue', bua.3 'lotus; pink', namfi-taan^ 'sugar; brown').^8 These ...

14 Adjectives in Lao 343 5.1. COMPLEX ADJECTIVES 5.1.1. Compounds involving noun and verb Some types of complex adjectives combi ...

344 N. J. Enfield (97) meew2 caw4 cai haangs kut2 cat 2SG IRR tail lopped 'Your cat will be lopped-tailed.' (98) Iuuk4 mam bo$ p ...

14 Adjectives in Lao 345 Another example is the transitive verb mii2 'have (something)', whose second meaning is intransitive 'w ...

346 N. I. Enfield (b) qahaan^ nii4 pen^-taa^-seep4 food DEM.GNL be-eye-delicious "This food looks delicious' The derived express ...

14 Adjectives in Lao 347 Linguistic epidemiology: semantics and grammar of language contact in mainland Southeast Asia. London: ...

15 ADJECTIVE CLASSES: WHAT CAN WE CONCLUDE? John Hajek Introduction^1 To many linguists, the claim made by Dixon in Chapter i ...

15 What can we conclude? 349 noun and verb classes is not in doubt in any of the thirteen languages described in this volume. Ho ...

35Q John Hajek this volume. All four languages spoken in the Americas are reported to have an independent adjective class, as is ...

15 What can we conclude? 351 bifurcation: Russian has a major distinction between noun-like long forms and verb-like short forms ...

352 John Hajek strongly categorial in favour of assignment of adjectives to the verb class (or more rarely, to an independent ve ...

15 What can we conclude? 353 5 Negation and adjectives Evidence presented in this volume suggests that languages rarely employ a ...

354 John Hajek of comparison is expressed in the same sentence or in preceding discourse. It is restricted to adjectives and som ...

15 What can we conclude? 355 languages in which adjectives are classified as verb-like (Korean, Lao, Qiang, and Semelai) or are ...

356 John Hajek nouns, as already indicated by Dixon in Chapter i. The phenomenon of adjectival NP head is restricted to three la ...

15 What can we conclude? 357 noun in post-head position. Manange verb-like adjectives share properties with both categories: the ...