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ANNALS NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 



Table of Pronominal Fornix 



Adjectives 



Tepecano adjectival ideas are generally expressed by independent 

 adjectival stems which are not united with any other part of speech. 

 Occasionally certain adjectival stems such as ap, "good" and int\v, 

 "bad" are used adverbially and incorporated in the verbal complex. 

 but the typical process is to use the adjective independently or 

 with the attributive particle -or-. A few of the more frequent 

 adjectives such as o''hi, "beautiful" and g'6\ go'goB, "grand" arc 

 used independently with bare unmodified stem, but the majority of 

 adjectival stems are accompanied by the prefix -ic- which is probably 

 identical with the positive verbal particle. 



84. -(/-, verbalizing. 



The particle -g- gives a verbal effect to adjectival stems as in 

 English "whiten", "redden" (active, not causative). 



avi'eiamgicta" 

 avicia'mgicwni; 

 avicgictoilui, 

 ainiriiimgicgfV'k 



it simply whitens 



it simply reddens 



it is becoming green 



they are becoming simply numerous 



Ajdverbs 



L0( ITIVE Ahi ERB1 a r in in 1 1 S 



One of the most noticeable characteristics of Tepecano is the 



development of locative adverbial particles. Most verbs of motion 



