Wednesday, April 25, 2012

'Tough' adjectives in Triqui

I've been wondering about a class of adjectives in Copala Triqui that seem in their syntax a bit like English  'It is tough for X to Y'.

One such adjective is ya'núj 'be free, be available'.  It shows up with a syntax like the following:

Exist ya'núj rihaan NP [V (pro)...]


meaning

NP is free to V


as in the following example:


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