Qualities: BIG, SMALL Intensifier: VERY Temporal: TIMEWHEN, AFTER, and BEFORE

342 BAD PEOPLE I AM BAD YOU ARE BAD X IS BAD FOR ME X IS BAD FOR YOU X IS BAD FOR PEOPLE X IS BAD FOR SOMEONE I must regard all of these absences as accidental. BAD is a rare form in our corpus. Furthermore, the fact that we were able to find all the valences of GOOD with one exception should make us suspicious of these absences. Although I will not list out in detail example sentences, generally BAD may occur in the same contexts where GOOD is found.

6.8 Qualities: BIG, SMALL

Our survey found examples in our corpus for the following NSM syntactic frames: BIG PERSON BIG PEOPLE BIG THING BIG PLACE BIG PART I AM BIG SOMEONE IS BIG SOMETHING IS BIG The following NSM syntactic frames were not found during our survey: YOU ARE BIG PEOPLE ARE BIG THIS IS BIG I regard the omission of YOU ARE BIG as accidental since BIG is also relatively rare in our corpus. The valence PEOPLE ARE BIG is also an accidental omission, but in this case it is more difficult to verify this with an example sentence. Nevertheless, the following sentence seems to be an acceptable context for this: 148 bifo taim pipo waz smao, naudeiz dei big ‘Long ago, people were small, now they are big’ The valence THIS IS BIG is unnecessary, I believe. One can access the same sort of meaning through the configuration THIS THING IS BIG which is a subtype of the SOMETHING IS BIG valence. This study found examples for the following NSM primitive combinations: 343 SMALL PERSON SMALL THING SMALL PLACE SMALL PART I AM SMALL YOU ARE SMALL SOMEONE IS SMALL SOMETHING IS SMALL The following combinations were not found in our corpus: SMALL PEOPLE PEOPLE ARE SMALL THIS IS SMALL Using the same arguments as above, I conclude that SMALL PEOPLE and PEOPLE ARE SMALL are accidental gaps in the data and that the valence THIS IS SMALL is not needed.

6.9 Intensifier: VERY

We have found in our corpus examples of the following valences for VERY: VERY GOOD VERY BAD VERY BIG VERY SMALL VERY MANY There are no missing valences.

6.10 Temporal: TIMEWHEN, AFTER, and BEFORE

We have found evidence for the possible NSM syntactic configurations for the primitive TIMEWHEN: AT X TIME, SAY-Clause AT X TIME, DO-Clause AT X TIME, HAPPEN-Clause AT X TIME, THINK-Clause AT X TIME, WANT-Clause AT X TIME, FEEL-Clause AT X TIME, KNOW-Clause There are no missing configurations. 344 This study found examples of all of the possible syntactic valences of AFTER: AFTER X TIME AFTER THIS There are no missing valences. We have found all of the possible valences for BEFORE in our corpus data: BEFORE X TIME BEFORE THIS There are no missing valences. The temporal domain has proven especially unproblematic.

6.11 Locative: PLACEWHERE, UNDER, ABOVE