Chapurbal ne; antin. ‗I am going to the jungle.‘

250 Situational Explanation Examples On a peccary hunt, the hunters had tried to head off the animals and to arrive at another point before the animals did. On their arrival at the expected meeting place, they discover...

1. Pato nas; yannude. ‗The peccaries have already gone by.‘

2. Mutik, nakwal chule amine, machide. ‗Tonight the boy is going to hunt paca upriver.‘

18.4.5.2 Direct object stated in main clause, and only adjective stated in the postpredicate position When the speaker wishes to highlightclarify an evaluation of a direct object, only the direct object is stated in the main clause and only the adjective is stated in the postpredicate position. In other words, when the speaker wishes to give his opinion of the object, its relative size, quantity or relative weight, etc., only the adjective occurs in the postpredicate position. All adjectives are not of an evaluatory nature. Those which are not evaluatory e.g., colors may not occur alone in the postpredicate position. If the evaluatory adjective is descriptive, the short form is used, and the stress changes to the last syllable of the adjective. Derived adjectives do not change their stress. Examples 1. Tad ul chobzha; totó. ‗The grandfather made the canoe what in my opinion is small.‘ 2. Antin mol pakcha; tatár. ‗I bought a flimsy piece of cloth.‘ 3. Tad ul chobzha; ul yer tummad. ‗The elder made a very big canoe.‘ 4. Machi koe makcha; kallagwa. ‗The boy killed a in my opinion thin deer.‘ When a speaker highlights an object and evaluates it in terms of the class of similar objects to which it belongs, the suffix -gwa-kwa is added to the adjective. Some adjectives may not take the suffix, e.g., tummad ‗big‘. Examples 1. Tad ul chobzha; totogwa. ‗The elder made what in my opinion is a one of the small ones canoe.‘ 2. Machi koe makcha; kallagwa. ‗The boy shot what in my opinion is one of the small deer.‘ Exercise 8 . Postpredicate position object evaluation frame drill The teacher says Sentence 1 and the student repeats it; the teacher says Sentence 2 and the student repeats it, etc. This exercise should be repeated several times. Example Teacher: Tad ul chobzha; totó. Student: Tad ul chobzha; totó. 1. Tad ul chobzha; totó. ‗The elder made the canoe in my opinion small.‘ 2. Machi koe makcha; kallagwad. ‗The boy shot in my opinion a thin deer.‘ 3. Machi karpa chobzha; túmmad. 110 ‗The boy made in my opinion a large basket.‘ 4. Tad yannu mecha; kwallu nikarba. ‗The elder killed in my opinion a fat peccary.‘ 5. Machi ua makcha; ichejul. ‗The boy caught in my opinion lots of fish.‘ Exercise 9 . Postpredicate position object evaluation frame drill The teacher says Sentence 1 and the student repeats it; the teacher says Sentence 2 and the student repeats it, etc. This exercise should be repeated several times. 110 The intense form of tummad ‗big‘ is túmmad. Heavy stress and an elongated mm signals the emphatic form.