Adjective Classes - A Cross-Linguistic Typology
18 R. M. W. Dixon 6.1.2. Different possibilities for transitivity In Fijian, almost every verb can be used either intransitively ...
1 Adjective Classes in Typological Perspective 19 A few of the verbs relating to the HUMAN PROPENSITY semantic type can also mak ...
20 R. M. W. Dixon (21) obi 9Jp9 'hard-heartedness, meanness' as an inherent character trait (literally 'heart bad') (22) ijzq d\ ...
1 Adjective Classes in Typological Perspective 21 6.1.4. Different possibilities in comparative constructions Not all languages ...
22 R. M. W. Dixon (26) (a) [£««#] COPULA.SUBJECT [-^IcOPULA [^M'^e]cOPULA.COMPLEMENT sugar is sweet-NOMiNALiZER 'sugar is a swee ...
1 Adjective Classes in Typological Perspective 23 apply when a noun is modified by an adjective (Welmers and Welmers 1969). The ...
24 R. M. W. Dixon conditions). Thus, while the nounyam 'man' can only occur with bayi,yibi 'woman only with balan, etc., an adje ...
1 Adjective Classes in Typological Perspective 25 that inflects for gender and number, like a noun. The principle appears to be ...
26 R. M. W. Dixon take case; only if there is no modifier to a noun will case attach to the noun (Palm- er 1967). However, in Bu ...
1 Adjective Classes in Typological Perspective 27 phological possibilities than a verb in this slot; it can only take tense and ...
28 R. M. W. Dixon Only an adjective can occur alone as copula complement, as in John is tall; a noun requires an article or othe ...
1 Adjective Classes in Typological Perspective 29 They cannot directly modify a head noun in an NP but must first be nominalized ...
30 R. M. W. Dixon thus be prototypical adjective classes in terms of their syntactic functions. Edo might be a candidate for set ...
1 Adjective Classes in Typological Perspective 31 (2) Japanese has two adjective classes, each of which is quite large. Their gr ...
32 R. M. W. Dixon (3) Manange (Tibeto-Burman; see Chapter 3 below) also has two adjective class- es. What Genetti and Hildebrand ...
1 Adjective Classes in Typological Perspective 33 H(ead-marking), where the syntactic functions of core constituents are shown ...
34 R. M. W. Dixon I and basically H: Many of the languages of North America (including most languages in Na-dene, Algonquian-Ri ...
1 Adjective Classes in Typological Perspective 35 (2) Japanese is a dependent-marking language; as discussed in §8, there are tw ...
36 R. M. W. Dixon adjectives, but then developed dependent markers. Syntactic function is, as in Jap- anese, shown by particles ...
1 Adjective Classes in Typological Perspective 37 However, there are a number of small semantic fields for which Dyirbal has adj ...
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