7 The Small Adjective Class in Jarawara 191a description courageous' involves the PN habi/habo 'aerial root, tendon, used in
the extended sense courage', as subject of the verb -kowi- 'be deep'; literally '[his]
courage is deep'.
5.2. GRAMMATICAL FUNCTIONS
Adjectives can function at two slots within an NP, or as the sole constituent of a
copula complement. We consider these one at a time.
(i) Modifier within an NP. Most frequently, an adjective (in slot Bii from Table 2)
follows the head noun (which is in slot B), as in (6-8), (lob), (11-13) and:
(16) [jam botee]A {era haa-ka}
white.man(m) old insg.incO call.to-DECLARATiVE:m
'the old white man called to us'
An adjective can modify a nsg pronoun as NP head; for example, the Jarawara
people's auto denomination ee jokana (lit. 'real us'), mentioned under D3 in §5.1.
However, I have not encountered an adjective modifiying a sg pronoun, as NP
head (in the way that a PN can modify a sg pronoun).
As mentioned earlier, a complement clause fills the head slot in an NP and may
be followed by an adjective, as in:
(17) [([sefeja] 0 {fawi}) jokana]cs
beer(f) drink:coMPLEMENT.CLAUSE real
{o-ha-tee-ra ama o-ke}
lSgA-beCOme-HABITUAL-NEGATIVE:f EXTENT lSg-DECLARATIVE:f
'I don't habitually drink beer very much' (lit. my real beer-drinking is not
habitual)
In (17) the copula subject NP consists of a complement clause 'my drinking beer' as
head, modified by the adjective jokana 'real'. By a regular rule of Jarawara grammar,
the subject of the complement clause is raised into the subject slot in the predicate
of the main clause, attaching to copula verb (to-)ha- 'become'.
The other possibility for occurrence within an NP is slot Ci, immediately fol-
lowing a PN (in slot C) which is itself modifying the head noun, as in:
(18) [Jobeto tomene ehebotee]cs {ama-ka}
name(m) size:m big be-DECLARATiVE:m
'Jobeto is big' (lit. Jobeto's size big is)
In (19) the adjective follows two PNs:
(19) [jam feme bako ehebotee]cs {ama-ka}
white.man(m) foot:m underside:m big be-DECLARATiVE:m
'the white men have big soles on their feet'
Compare these with (20), where the adjective ehebotee (in slot Bii) follows the
head, and is itself followed by a PN (in slot C):