Illustrations :
i. adj – N- adj :
siməyyəwməpu-nòk-əyóŋ
‘big
beautiful house’
1 N 2 2
1 N
yəwmeəŋpu cɨŋ
əñu ‘ugly big city/village’
1 N 2 1
2 N
luŋməy ka?taəməy ‘good old man’
1 N 2 2
1 N
ii. adj – adj – N :
məypu luŋmaəy ka?ta ‘good old man’
1 2 N 1
2 N
təwpu wóŋnaŋ ka?ta ‘tall strong man’
1 2 N 1 2 N
iii. N – adj – adj ;
layhèŋ
əpe ‘thin white paper’
N 1
2 2
1 N
nòkyóŋpu phəytaŋ
‘big costly house’
N 1 2 1
2 N
puləwpu
əyóŋ ‘long
big snake’
N 1
2 1
2 N
Pelan
əyóŋ əyóŋ
‘big
big trees’
The adjectives can take intensifiers also.
hípək yo?oŋe ləwe ‘very long time’
N 1 2 1
2 N
yo?oŋe
óŋnapu cɨŋ càe ‘one of the very forward village(s)’
1 2 N
3 3 1 2 N
yo?oŋe məypu yo?oŋe ‘very good very old man’
1 2 3 1 2
3 4 N
luŋməy ka?ta
4 N
ka?məw: ka?taŋ yo?oŋe ‘many very high mountains (and) hills’
N 1 3
1 2 N
tawpu móè
2 3
More than two adjectives can occur in a NP, eg. :
i.
N-adj-adj-adj (-adj) :
laype
əməy ələw ‘long, thin good paper’
N 1
2 3 3
1 2 N
layhéŋ
əpe ələw ‘white thin, longer paper’
N 1 2
3 1
2 3 N
phawyənmòklanme ləme ‘different small (and) big
N 1 1 2 3
əcoy
əyóŋ forest animals’
2 3
N
tawpu yóŋpu wóŋnaŋpu ‘tall big strong old man’
1 2 3
1
2 3 4
N
luyməyka?ta
4 N
There is no restriction as to the order of occurrence, of
above activities.
Besides the above attributes, distributive marker yoyoy
and/or emphatic marker [o] can also occur in a noun phrase, eg. :
yoyoy nòk ‘respective houses’
N N
a) yoyoy cɨŋcɨŋ
‘respective/different villages’
1 N
N
yoyoy cɨŋka?ta ‘respective village people’
1 2 N 1 2 N
b) The emphatic marker can be used with most of
the above combinations, eg. :
hàtəw ka?talan o ‘these men also’
1 N
2 1
N 2
hàtəw ka?ta
əməylano ‘these good men also’
1 N 2
3 1
2 N 3
Derived noun and other nouns can occur in a NP. The relation will be of possession, eg. :
phətpu ka?ta ‘running man’,
here, though phətpu ‘running’
N N
is a derived noun, it
functions as an attribute. This NP can
further take another attribute, eg. :
nəmme phətpu kata ‘running man with fear’
1 2 N 2
N 1
yo?ŋe móŋməypu ‘lot
of happiness’
1 N 1
N