Difference between revisions of "Special Adjectives"
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Revision as of 17:07, 7 December 2012
There are a handful of adjectives including mostly color adjectives and a few physical attributes that have at least two forms that have different syntactic distributional patterns. The adjectives in the table below are the ones collected so far that seem to have at least two forms:
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The forms in lines 1, 2, and 3 above arise in different grammatical contexts. The derived forms on line 2 can only be used with the na relative constructions; the root form in 1 and the derived form in 3 are both used in either verbal predication constructions noun-adjacent modification, while the root form in 1 is a bare form that can appear only noun-adjacent:
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