Víctor Acedo-Matellán

Unearthing adjectives in Wolof: Lexical categories and typological implications

It is widely assumed that Wolof lacks adjectives, encoding property predicates as verbs (e.g., ñuul ‘be black’). This paper argues instead that these property predicates are derived from an underlying adjectival category. Evidence comes from a relative construction restricted to property predicates, whose optional noni...