Beautiful hypothesis, meet ugly fact …. So if this was a clitic turned flexion, the process would have to be pre-Proto-Oti-Volta, or at least pre-Proto-WOV-Yom-Nawdm-Buli-Konni a grouping sadly lacking a proper name as yet, on account of previous incorrect analyses of intra-Oti-Volta relationships: Yom-Nawdm is often wrongly placed as more remote from WOV than the Gurma languages are. Further supporting evidence for this is that even in contemporary Kusaal, rather than an adjective as complement of the copula, a derived adverb […] turns up instead.
I think this is probably misguided as far as Kusaal goes, though, because colour adjectives actually do have associated quality verbs elsewhere in Oti-Volta.
Colours name physical sensations and in the link abobe it is big, small, white and insipid. Grammatical oppositions — It is semi-regular in Russian. We have two sorts of adjectives in preditative function in present without copula and three in other tenses with copula.
Colour words are rarely used in short versions. The first sentence of WP s. In trust law, the grant is the act by which the settlor creates the trust for the interests of the trustee. In an option contract, the right of the optionee to exercise the option is considered a grant on the part of the optionor.
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