Adjective Classes - A Cross-Linguistic Typology
98 Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald in most other Arawak languages, grammatical relations in Tariana are marked by cases, on a nominative ...
4 The Adjective Class in Tariana 99 isg 2Sg 3sgnf 3sgf Impersonal nu- pi- di- du- pa- nuha piha diha duha paha TABLE i. Person, ...
ioo Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald Personal pronouns form their non-subject case with the suffix -na—see (6). (6) nu-na di-harameta-pu- ...
4 The Adjective Class in Tariana 101 TABLE 2. Grammatical relations and core cases in Tariana Grammatical function Subject (A/S) ...
1O2 Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald and focus on varying properties of a referent. For instance, heku, without a classi- fier, means 'wo ...
4 The Adjective Class in Tariana 103 TABLE 3. Selection of classifiers and noun class markers in Tariana Noun class mark- er on ...
1O4 Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald Position 4 in Fig. 2 can be filled more than once. Several classifiers can be 'stacked' as derivatio ...
4 The Adjective Class in Tariana 105 TABLE 4. Word classes and functional slots in Tariana Verb Noun Head of intransitive predic ...
106 Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald To be used as a modifier in a noun phrase, a noun has to be transformed into a derived adjective, wi ...
4 The Adjective Class in Tariana 107 TABLE 5. 'Big' and 'large' in the plural and in the singular Big Large, thick Singular hanu ...
io8 Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald (underlying form: upi-ha-niri) (old/late-parent-MASc) 'widower'. (Its Baniwa cog- nate root u:pi is ...
4 The Adjective Class in Tariana 109 E OTHER. One further adjective does not appear to belong to any of the semantic groups outl ...
no Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald SIMILARITY is expressed with the postposition kayu; a postpositional noun phrase can be transformed i ...
4 The Adjective Class in Tariana m of astative verb 'be straight', mayakani-kema (be.straight-THEM:CL.siDE) 'right', lit. 'strai ...
112 Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald stative verb whyume which can be turned into a modifier with the help of a noun class marker, e.g. w ...
4 The Adjective Class in Tariana 113 C. Co-occurrence with noun classes or classifiers We have seen above that every noun is ass ...
ii4 Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald twice in (16), and three times in (17). In each case, agreement is with different 'heads': with the ...
4 The Adjective Class in Tariana 115 (18) ilfiri hanuhite game big:APPR:NCL.ANiM 'a biggish animal' In (18), -iha is a typical s ...
n6 Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald And (21), with -iha as a suffix, was used to refer to a blackish animal not compared to anything else ...
4 The Adjective Class in Tariana 117 stative verbs. They do not then take any noun class marker, as in (22) and (23). Ad- jectiv ...
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