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This episode we talk all about adjectives, what you can do with them and how they fit into a language.
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Links and Resources
- Grune, D. (1995) Hopi Survey of an Uto-Aztecan Language.
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Halling, P. H. (2012). Semantic Types and Prototypical Adjectives and Adverbs (“Dixon Specials” on page 6)
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Cuzzolin, P., & Lehmann, C. (2004) Comparison and gradation. Booij, G., Mugdan, J., SS, Lehmann, C.(eds.) Morphologie. Ein internationales Handbuch zur Flexion und Wortbiltung, 2, 1212-1220.
- Stassen, Leon. (2013) Comparative Constructions. In: Dryer, Matthew S. & Haspelmath, Martin (eds.)
The World Atlas of Language Structures Online. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology - Salt, Mackenzie. (?) Morphological Sketch of Tagalog
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Hallonsten Halling, P. (2009) On the Universality and Variation of the Adjective Category.
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Teodorescu, A. (2006) Adjective ordering restrictions revisited. In Proceedings of the 25th west coast conference on formal linguistics (pp. 399-407).
- Stassen, Leon. (2013) Predicative Adjectives. In: Dryer, Matthew S. & Haspelmath, Martin (eds.)
The World Atlas of Language Structures Online. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. - Gil, David. (2013) Adjectives without Nouns. In: Dryer, Matthew S. & Haspelmath, Martin (eds.)
The World Atlas of Language Structures Online.
Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. - Adjectives, who needs ’em?
- Wikipedia on Spanish adjective placement
John Hutchinson
Yimas (https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B9QDHej9UGAdOWFHMzJienM2LXM&tid=0B9QDHej9UGAdcDhWVEllMzJBSEk): three proper adjectives (kpa “big”, yua “good” and ma “other” ), which agree with their head in noun class when they do not occur directly before the noun. All other words denoting qualities are like verbs with the -k irrealis suffix. waca “small” and mama “bad” belong to both classes. There are also some noun-like adjectives as well.
Maybe that was the language William couldn’t remember?
wm.annis
Here’s a great summary of the Hausa possibilities: http://aflang.humnet.ucla.edu/Hausa/Hausa_online_grammar/BE/adjective_pred.html.
/sɑɪ̯f ɑsɑd ɑˈsːətjə/
Well, if and when I start a conlang-themed R&B band, I think I’ve finally found the name for it: the Funky Euphony Forms!
Thanks for another entertaining episode, gentlemen. I like the mix of conlang human interest topics (like Axanar or the interviews with Britton Watkins and J.S. Bangs), good crunchy general linguistics topics (like this one), and specific language reviews. I’m really glad this podcast has stood the test of time.
wm.annis
Thanks!
Andrew J Smith
I’m just going to let y’all know that the provided link for Halling’s work on the semantic types of adjectives is broken. However, this link, https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/35613426/semantic-types-and-prototypical-adjectives-and-adverbs , works for me at the moment.