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By Harrie Wetzer

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B. ' (Gary-Gamal-Eldin 1982: 107) Third, definite adjectives can be used as noun phrases in a sentence. 6) a. b. ' (Gary-Gamal-Eldin 1982: 116) Finally, adjectives in CECA are treated on a par with nouns when used as predicates. In present tense constructions no overt copula is used; predicate adjectives and nouns are linked to their subject by juxtaposition: 22 2. 7) a. b. 8) a. b. ' (Gary-Gamal-Eldin 1982: 23) Nkore-Kiga and Egyptian Arabic are instances of languages in which adjectives share grammatical properties with the nouns.

Intransitive stative) verbs take the same person prefixes as other intransitive verbs do. The prefixes for second (/-) and third (è-) person are identical in the singular and the plural. 23) below). Adjectival verbs, however, differ from dynamic intransitive verbs in the way they are marked to indicate number of the subject. First, there are many adjectival verbs which, contrary to dynamic verbs, are not marked for number at all (see Dimmendaal 1982: 143). 2. 23c). Second, in so far as adjectivale take number suffixes, the number markets are different in form and are used in a conjugational pattern which is distinct from that of dynamic verbs.

While numerous descriptive grammars have rightly been criticised because of their obvious Indo-European bias, and most grammarians nowadays explicitly adopt a more language-specific approach which "seeks to avoid foisting parts of speech upon the language where they do not really fit" (Durie 1985: 45), I cannot get away from the impression that many linguists still have the traditional category "adjective" at the back of their mind. 3. The problematic word class status of adjectivals 41 are analyzed as a distinct class of adjectives far more often than verb-like adjectivals are.

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