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position (a handful of nouns do have medial coronals, such as 2fA.fhe 'toilet,' 2puci
'knee,' and ihirti 'knife,' but word-medial coronals and aspirated obstruents are
not found in Manange verbs or verb-like adjectives). Simple adjectives often do
not conform to this template. The majority of simple adjectives are polysyllabic,
e.g. 2sitA.ri 'free,' and word-medial coronal consonants are common in these forms,
e.g. srjoto 'true', 4pholtorj 'round', and 2plisur 'square'; medial aspirated stops are also
found, e.g. ^kathe 'thin. Thus simple adjectives have fewer constraints on their pho-
notactic structure than do nouns, verbs, and verb-like adjectives.
3.2. MORPHOLOGICAL PROPERTIES
Simple adjectives do not inflect with either derivational or inflectional morph-
ology. They maybe hosts to clitics, as may any NP-final elements:
(11) inyukyu 4khyokro=ko=tse iale=ri 3pyu-tsi
dog old=DEF=ERG boy=LOC chase-PERF
'The old dog chased the boy.'
(12) 3bofA.l ithe=tse 2thiiyA.imi
bottle empty=PL fall go EVID:PERF
'The empty bottles fell.'
There are no derivational affixes to be found on adjectives, such as comparatives,
superlatives, or intensifiers, as these functions are all conveyed with periphrastic
structures (discussed below). Neither is there any morphology that converts sim-
ple adjectives into adverbs or any other lexical class. The simple adjectives 4/co/e
'slow' and 3/cz'nz 'quick' maybe used adverbially, but require no derivational morph-
ology to do so:
(13) 3kini iyA-ro
quick go-iMPER
'Go quickly.' (he said)
As neither nouns nor simple adjectives take any inflectional or derivational morph-
ology, there is no morphological behaviour that differentiates these two classes.
Simple adjectives are morphologically distinct from the classes of verbs and verb-
like adjectives, as they are never affixed with verbal morphology, such as the nega-
tive a-, the nominalizer -pA., the clause chainer -tee, or the perfective -tsi.
3.3. SYNTACTIC PROPERTIES OF SIMPLE ADJECTIVES
Simple adjectives function both attributively, occurring within a noun phrase (dis-
cussed in §3.3.1), and also occur as copular complements (§3.3.2).
3.3.1. Attributive functionsSimple adjectives with attributive function obligatorily follow anoun. Unlike nouns,
simple adjectives may not be heads of noun phrases. Thus, in examples (14-15),
e