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2.4.2. SPEED
Another semantic category which has only simple adjective members is SPEED.
There are only two simple adjectives in this category: ^kini 'fast' and 4/co/e 'slow'. As
was mentioned in §2.2, these two adjectives may undergo either partial or whole
reduplication.
2.4.3. QUANTIFICATIOThe final semantic class exclusively marked by simple adjectives is QUANTIFICA-
TION. There is only one member of this class, 2kMi, which is borrowed from Nepa-
li. It functions as an interrogative pronoun meaning 'how many/how much', and, as
in Nepali, it may also be used adjectively to mean 'very many/much', or 'too many/
much', as in the following example taken from a Manange narrative:
(4) 3ya 2kA.tti imo imu,
yak too.many COP EVID
'there were too many yaks'^5
In addition to functioning as an adjective, this morpheme also serves as an inten-
sifier (as in Nepali).
2.4.4. AGEThere is only one simple adjective which conveys AGE, but there are five verb-like
adjectives in this category:
(5) Simple adjectives Verb-like adjectives
4khyokro 'old' (animates) ise 'young'
ica 'new/small'
3tan~3tArj 'ancient'
ini 'old' (inanimates)
2srurj 'brief/short'
The simple adjective 4khyokro forms an antonmyic pair with the verb-like
adjective ise 'young'. The simple adjective is unusual in that it may also function as
a noun meaning 'old man. It is one of a small handful of simple adjectives which
have nominal counterparts (see §2.3.1 for additional discussion).
2.4.5. DIMENSIONThe adjectives which indicate DIMENSION are listed in (6):
(6) Simple adjectives Verb-like adjectives
3kathe 'thin (animate)' 2mre 'fat animates'
3tsok 'vertically straight' ithyA 'big'
(^5) Examples extracted from connected speech are transcribed in intonation units a la DuBois et al.
'1993'. Examples from elicitation are not in intonation units.