Sunday, March 18, 2012

Comparatives in Triqui

I was interested by the following example of a comparative in Copala Triqui.   The general structure for these is

V/Adj doj... rihaan NP

where doj is the 'more' morpheme and rihaan NP is the standard of comparison.

What's intriguing here is that the doj appears after the second part of a verbal compound:


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