Tham khảo tài liệu 'lexical categories verbs nouns and adjectives phần 9', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 256 Adjectives as neither nouns nor verbs Elsewhere p. 187 Munro suggests that this adjective construction might be thought of as a type of reduced relative. But just as in Choctaw this so-called relative clause duplicates precisely the distinctive properties of attributive modification it consists of only a noun and something that looks like an adjective merged into a tight constituent that contains no distinctively clausal elements. This suggests that Mojave also has adjectives that normally must combine with a Pred to form a verb but that can create an attributive construction when the circumstances are right. I do not attempt to derive the particular morphosyntactic properties of this Mojave construction however which are not as straightforward as Choctaw. See Hengeveld 1992 47-48 who also appeals to sentences like 117 as a reason to resist reducing adjectives to verbs in Mojave. Very much the same situation can be discerned in Austronesian languages. Donohue 1999 shows that in predicative environments adjectives in Tukang Besi seem indistinguishable from verbs as is typical for languages in this family 118 a No-to oge na woleke iso. A p. 79 3 REAL-big NOM rat yon That rat is big. b No-tode mo na woleke. V p. 77 3 REAL-flee-PERF NOM rat The rat s bolted. A difference appears however when the two types of words are used to modify nouns true verbs require a morpheme that shows that relative extraction has taken place whereas adjectives do not 119 a te woleke to oge A p. 77 ART rat big the big rat b te woleke t-um-ode V p. 79 ART rat REL-flee the fleeing rat Donohue s own informal analysis of this is that Tukang Besi has a class of distinctively adjectival roots but they are bound elements that must be incorporated into some other category on the surface 1999 82-89 . In 118a the adjectival root is combined with a null verb in 119a it forms a kind of compound with a noun. These suggestions fit very well into my theory in my terms 118a is a case of A conflating into
