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1. |
ocü cüvo
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‘stone well’ |
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cüvo cü |
‘(the) stone(s)
of (the) wall’ |
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2. |
kamüi saba
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‘woollen shawl’ |
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saba kamüi
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‘wool of the shawl’ |
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3. |
kovo cü
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‘bamboo house’ |
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cü kovo
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‘bamboo of the house’ |
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4. |
khruzhü
khirki |
‘glass window’ |
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4a. |
khirki khruzhü
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‘(the) glass of (the)
window’ |
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Notionally, genitives like adjectives as delineated in this
section make a more inclusive class less inclusive, which
is a generic property of noun attributes. But genitives,
unlike adjectives, neither describe nor evaluate. my in
‘my bag’ is not a description of the bag per se, which cotton
in ‘cotton bag’ is,
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587 |
.1. |
ole kashü lo |
‘love song’ |
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2.
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oru kozüko lo
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‘war poem’ |
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3.
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oni cü |
‘mud house’ |
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4. |
cek cü |
‘brick house’ |
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5. |
k ton
mani |
‘cotton pants’ |
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6. |
o ho
to |
‘cowrie shell necklace’ |
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Verb roots functioning as adjectives |
This is a limited membership set.
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588 |
1. |
amajüto
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‘be equal’ |
iniu amajüto |
‘equal villages’ |
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2. |
kochu |
‘be new’ |
saba kochu |
‘new shawl’ |
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3. |
madi |
‘be green’ |
larübvü madi |
‘green block’ |
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4. |
kocu |
‘be real’ |
oko kocu |
‘real story’ |
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5. |
kava |
‘be yellow’ |
raho kava |
‘yellow bird’ |
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6. |
mala |
‘be shallow’ |
korü mala |
‘shallow river’ |
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7. |
kotsü
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‘be old’ |
oja kotsü |
‘old teacher’ |
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of animates) |
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8. |
nolu |
‘be young’ |
kokhrumüi nolu |
‘young players’ |
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Verb roots functioning as noun attributes do
so more productively within compounds :
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ve-di (ove
madi) |
‘tree-frog’ |
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frog be green |
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ve-te (ove
te) |
‘kind of frog’ |
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frog be fat |
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mo-jü (omo
jü) |
‘kind of pumpkin,
big in size’ |
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pumpkin be big |
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dzü-lü (dzü
lü) |
‘kind of water,
warm’ |
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water be hot |
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3.3.9.4.
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Order
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Typically adjectives
follow the (head) noun except the third category of adjectives
illustrated above, the nominal noun-attributes descriptive
of material. Reversed temporal order is in some of the following
illustrations impossible and in others infelicitous in differing
degrees.
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590 |
1. |
raho kakra
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‘white bird’ |
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2. |
osa kahiü
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‘dry cloth’ |
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3. |
larü(bvü)
kohõ |
‘red book’ |
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4. |
oni amonü |
‘soft soil’ |
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5. |
larü kosho
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‘thick book’ |
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6. |
pfoo
ohi) kaci
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‘blind boy’ |
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7. |
pen kati
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‘black pen’ |
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8. |
ovo-so kashü
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‘bad pork’ |
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9. |
mikrü deni
kajü |
‘big mikrü deni, a
kind of knife’ |
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10. |
raho kapa |
‘blue bird’ |
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Among the nonsystematic, no principles but
perfectly felicitous exceptions to this rule of linear precedence are
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591 |
.1. |
ole amazhi
ko } |
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} ‘sad story’ |
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? oko ole amazhi
} |
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2. |
acovo cüheli
} |
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} ‘healthy, well-to-do
family’ |
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cüheli acovo } |
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3. |
pfoki atokru
madi } |
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} ‘high green hills’ |
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atokru madi pfoki
} |
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It is this laternative possibility which renders
ambiguous phrases like
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