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Adjectives without Nouns

by David Gil http://wals.info/feature/61

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  1. Daniel Vasarhelyi Says:
    April 26th, 2008 at 7:48 pm

    In Hungarian adjectives are never marked for case when the NP contains a nominal head but case marking is obligatory when there is no noun in the phrase:

    Lát-tam egy piros rózsá-t.
    See-1SGPast a red rose-ACC. I saw a red rose.

    Lát-tam egy piros-at.
    See-1SGPast a red-ACC. I saw a red one.

    Even:

    Lát-tam egy-et.
    See-1SGPast a-ACC. I saw one.

    So it is marked on the adjective whether the np contains a noun or not.

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