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Adjectival modifiers agree with the nouns they modify in terms of the noun class determiner and the appropriate consonant mutation. This means that with diminutive and augmentative forms of nouns the noun class changes, and the adjective agreement follows on the basis of the new class. The following is a table sampling nouns across all noun classes and the ways in which they are modified, where the last two items on the list represent diminutive and augmentative noun classes. |
Adjectival modifiers agree with the nouns they modify in terms of the noun class determiner and the appropriate consonant mutation. This means that with diminutive and augmentative forms of nouns the noun class changes, and the adjective agreement follows on the basis of the new class. The following is a table sampling nouns across all noun classes and the ways in which they are modified, where the last two items on the list represent diminutive and augmentative noun classes. |
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Adjectival modifiers agree with the nouns they modify in terms of the noun class determiner and the appropriate consonant mutation. This means that with diminutive and augmentative forms of nouns the noun class changes, and the adjective agreement follows on the basis of the new class. The following is a table sampling nouns across all noun classes and the ways in which they are modified, where the last two items on the list represent diminutive and augmentative noun classes.
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