Adjective Classes - A Cross-Linguistic Typology
38 R. M. W. Dixon There are very few instances, in English, of verb and adjective with similar meanings (where the forms are not ...
1 Adjective Classes in Typological Perspective 39 (i) The transitive verb nyaju-l refers to the act of cooking; its participle n ...
40 R. M. W. Dixon (38) hemmo 'to boil' woleya 'to be boiled' fahha 'to buy' fayyo 'to be bought' salu 'to stretch' pilla 'to be ...
1 Adjective Classes in Typological Perspective 41 ula complement and as head of an NP. They are unlike nouns and verbs in being ...
42 R. M. W. Dixon (of which there are several score underived forms) from verbs. When an adjec- tive functions as intransitive p ...
1 Adjective Classes in Typological Perspective 43 language, but instead a sub-class of verbs. They might well have come to the s ...
44 R. M. W. Dixon Even greater difficulties would arise for a language with two adjective classes, such as Japanese, in Chapter ...
1 Adjective Classes in Typological Perspective 45 tives may have both functions. A separate parameter concerns whether, when an ...
46 R. M. W. Dixon ASPINION, ROBERT. 1953. Apprenons le berbere: initiation aux dialectes chleuhs. Paris: Edi- tions Felix Moncho ...
1 Adjective Classes in Typological Perspective 47 FEELING, DURBIN. 1975. Cherokee-English dictionary. Talequah: Cherokee Nation ...
48 R. M. W. Dixon NICHOLS, JOHANNA. 1994. 'Ingush', pp. 79-145 of The indigenous languages of the Caucasus, Vol. 4, North east C ...
1 Adjective Classes in Typological Perspective 49 WELMERS, WILLIAM E. 1973. African language structures. Berkeley and Los Angele ...
Inflected and Uninflected Adjectives in Japanese Anthony E. Backhouse Introduction^1 This chapter deals with adjectives in Jap ...
2 Inflected and Uninflected Adjectives in Japanese 51 700 inflected adjectives listed in medium-sized monolingual dictionaries, ...
52 Anthony E. Backhouse TABLE i. Inflected adject:live Verb TABLE 2. Inflected adjective Verb Formal Negative Causative Passive/ ...
2 Inflected and Uninflected Adjectives in Japanese 53 TABLE 3. Inflected adjective Verb (negative) 2.1.2. Lexical derivation The ...
54 Anthony E. Backhouse TABLE 4. Process Result Inflected adjectives vs. verbs Conversion (conjunctive) Reduplication (stem) Suf ...
2 Inflected and Uninflected Adjectives in Japanese 55 Compare this example with the negative verb in (5) and the positive verb i ...
56 Anthony E. Backhouse (12) Haya-i hoo ga i-i (Inflected adjective) early-NONPAST alternative NOM good-NONPAST 'It had better b ...
2 Inflected and Uninflected Adjectives in Japanese 57 verbs on several more; negative verbs occupy an intermediate position, wit ...
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