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(3) *na0-thaam nan.2 si0 khom miiang2 phiim
monk DEM.NONPROX IRR person district P.
(That monk will (be) a Phiin District person.)
(4) *na0-thaam nam dajtf khon2 muang2 phiim
monk DEM.NONPROX ACHV person district P.
(That monk got to (be) a Phiin District person.)
(5) *na0-thaam nan.2 kamlang2 khon2 muang2 phiim
monk DEM.NONPROX PROG person district P.
(That monk (was) being a Phiin District person.)
(6) *ha
monk REL person district P.
(a/the monk who (was) a Phiin District person)
2.2. NOMINALS AS NOUN MODIFIERS
Nominals can be used to modify nominals, as in the following examples:
(7) saajs tholasap2
cable telephone
'telephone cable'
(8) keew4 now2
bottle milk
'milk bottle'
There are differences in grammatical behaviour between nominals and verbs in
modifier function. First, nominal modifiers can never be linked to their heads by
the relativizer thiii:
(9) *keew4 Mil now.2
bottle REL milk
(milk bottle; i.e. 'bottle which (is) milk')
A second difference is that modification of nominals by verbs often involves the
use of a modifier classifier (Enfield 2004). In the following, the (a) examples show
a verb (stative and active, respectively) directly modifying a noun, the (b) examples
show these same modifiers linked to their noun heads by the semantically general
classifier ({any.
(10) (a) cooks ngaaw.2
cup beautiful
'beautiful cup'
(b) cooks 1 an 3 ngaaw.2
cup CL beautiful
'the beautiful cup'