188 R. M. W. DixonTypical examples ofone/owa functioning as an adjective are (7-8).
(7) [okasima one-m]o [Towija[A[iti]
isgPOSSESSOR:younger.sister(f) othenf-ACCUSATIVE name(m) marry
Towija married my other younger sister'
(8) [fatara botee one]o {otaa to-wasi-witiha}
garden(f) old anothenf msg.excA AWAY-fmd-FROM.PLACE:f
'we encountered another old garden (as we went along an old track)'
In (9) one/owa functions as head of an NP, in fact as (alienable) kinship possessor to
fati 'wife' (compare owafati 'another(m)'s wife' with Manowaree fati 'Manowaree's
wife').
(9) [owa fati-bonehe-m]o {a.'ahi to-he}
another:m wife-iNTENTiON:f-ACCUS REDUP.swive AWAY-AUXiLiARY:m
'he was swiving (copulating with) another man's intended wife'
The relationship between one/owa as head of an NP and as modifier is brought out
in (ioa,b). On an expedition into the forest a lot of Brazil nuts were found and a
Jarawara youth told me that I should say, in order to ask for another, either of:
(10) (a) [oko owa]-bas {ee-ra}?
isgPOSSESSOR another(m)-FUTURE what.about-POLAR.iNTERRO-
GATIVE:m
'can I have another?' (lit. what about my future another?)
(b) [oko mowe owa]-bas {ee-ra}?
isgPOSSESSOR brazil.nut(m) another:m-FUT what.about-POLAR.
INTERROG:m
'can I have another brazil nut?' (lit. what about my future another bra-
zil nut?)In (loa) owa is NP head (in slot B of Table 2) whereas in (lob) the noun mowe 'bra-
zil nut' is NP head (slot B) and owa is an adjective (in slot Bii).
£2. hinita 'empty, alone'. This can be used to refer to an empty canoe, or an empty
tape-recorder (with no cassette in it), or an empty cassette (with nothing re-
corded on it), or to an unmarried person. Or it can refer to something unac-
companied by anything else, e.g.
(11) [aba hinita[s[foje]
fish(m) alone be.inside:m
'there was just fish (alone) inside (the bundle)'
There is a derived intransitive verb hi.hinita -na- '(water) be empty of (fish).'
£3. hinama 'all and only (that is, all this and nothing/no one else)'. Examples of its
use include: