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Like "noun" and "verb", "adjective" is used both as a type of word and as a syntactical usage, in this case as a generic term for words that modify nouns. In this set of lessons, I limit adjective to the former: a type of static verb with the additional property of being compared. When referring to the syntactical usage, I use the term participle, meaning an adjective, or any verb, which functions as a noun modifier. A participle will always be in its o-form.
Participles appear after the noun. They can also take aspect prefixes.
viro vetro "the old man"
yo damo zubaylo "a dancing woman"
The noun phrases described so far have been the anaphoric ones beginning with nouns. Phrases that introduce new entities, however, always place at least one word before the noun. There are three kinds of phrases that do this: indefinite noun phrases, demonstrative phrases, and subset noun phrases.
Demonstrative verbs answer the question eke "where" (CQ.Loc). The demonstrative ete (Prx.Loc) refers to anything or anyone near the speaker while ele (Dis.Loc) refers to anything or anyone far away and ese (Med.Loc) refers to anything or anyone in between.
In a demonstrative phrase, the o-form of one of the demonstrative verbs appears before the noun (as determiner) or in place of it (as pronoun). A quantifier may appear directly after the demonstrative word. Demonstrative phrases are definite along with anaphoric noun phrases.
eto damo "this woman/these women"
eso gatto "that cat/those cats"
elo pento cervo "those five deer yonder"
| cervo | deer | vakko | cow |
Translate into English:
1. cikko gekanto zumanja yo pomo.
Translate into TIAL:
1. .
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