2 Inflected and Uninflected Adjectives in Japanese 61(no) 'free' indicates that it is an adjective:
(29) Tada ni si-te ne
free be:coNj make-tecoNj ILLOC
'Make (something) free, right?/*Choose a free one, right?'
The alternative reading would require a structure such as the following, with (pro-
nominal) no functioning as NP head:
(30) Tada no ni si-te ne
free one DAT decide-tecoNj ILLOC
'Choose a free one, right?'
(h) NPs, but not AdjPs, may be coordinated with the marker to:
(31) ie to niwa
house and garden
'houses and gardens'
(32) *syooziki to rippa na niNgeN
honest and impressive ADNOM person
'a fine, honest person'
(i) Where uninflected adjectives have two arguments, one is marked byga (NOM),
the other byga (NOM), ni (DAT, etc.), to (RECIP, etc.), de (INST, etc.); as with inflected
adjectives, marking of the second argument with o (ACC) is found only rarely with
e.g. suki (nalno) 'like' and kirai (nalno) 'dislike', and marking with ga (NOM) is also
found with these items (cf. Jarkey 1999). For example:
(33) hoNkoNnyuukoku ga tyuugokunyuukoku to betu
entering.Hongkong NOM entering.China RECIP separate
da (to.iu.koto) (betu(nalno))
be:NONPAST (NR)
'(the fact that) entering Hongkong is different from entering China'
(34) terasuseki ga itumo hito de ippai da
outdoor.seats NOM always person INST full be:NONPAST
(to.iu.koto) (ippai (no))
(...)
'(the fact that) the outdoor seats are always full of people'
While some basic properties are shared, uninflected adjectives and nouns clearly
differ syntactically on a wide range of parameters.
2.3. SHARED PROPERTIES OF INFLECTED AND UNINFLECTED ADJECTIVES
Although inflected and uninflected adjectives by definition differ morphological-
ly, this section has shown that these items share many other properties. In lexic-
al derivation, all of the processes exhibited by uninflected (in particular, na) ad-