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(24) hoomupeezi o tada de tukur-u
home.page ACC free be:te CONJ make-NONPAST
'make a home page free-of-charge'
(e) Some, like inflected adjectives, occur modified adverbially by graders such as
kiwamete 'extremely', hizyoo ni 'very', hikakuteki 'comparatively', yori 'more' (cf. Mar-
tin 1975:143,797-8) and intensifies such as zitu ni 'truly', unlike nouns other than
relational nouns of place/time, etc. (cf. Martin 1975: 792, 796, 823):
(25) hizyoo.ni rippa na tatemono
very impressive ADNOM building
'a very impressive building'
(f) Unlike nouns, uninflected adjectives are not modified in adnominal patterns.
(g) Unlike nouns, uninflected adjectives do not occur as head of NPs, and are not
followed by case markers ga (NOM), o (ACC), etc. Here we note two constructions
with the verb suru which are useful in particular cases in distinguishing unin-
flected (especially no) adjectives from nouns: NPi ga NP2 ni suru 'NPi decides on/
chooses NP2* and NPi ga NP2 o NPs/AdjP ni suru 'NPi makes NP2 NPs/AdjP'. The
first is illustrated in the following:
(26) watasiga suteeki ni si-ta (to.iu.koto)
I NOM steak DAT decide-PAST (NR)
'(the fact that) I decided on steak'
Here NP2 is a noun phrase marked by the dative marker ni, and designates the
target of the decision made by NPi.
(27) kaityoo ga otooto o syatyoo ni si-ta
chairman NOM younger.brother ACC president be:coNj make-PAST
(to.iu.koto)
(...)
'(the fact that) the chairman made his younger brother president'
(28) syoogakusei ga kooeN o kirei ni si-ta
primary.school.children NOM park ACC clean be:coNj make-PAST
(to.iu.koto)
(...)
'(the fact that) the primary school children cleaned up the park'
The second construction, in (27) and (28), contains a copular complement filled by
either a noun phrase (NPs) or an adjective phrase marked by conjunctive ni, indi-
cating the resultant condition of NP2. Out of context, an elliptical utterance of the
form X ni suru will in principle thus allow two interpretations if X is filled by an
NP ('decide on X', 'make (someone/something) X') but only the latter if X is filled
by an AdjP (i.e. 'make (someone/something) X'). Applying this test to the item tada