Chapter 3: Nominal Predicates

Question 1

AB Nominal Predicate

Answer 1

A+B, “A is B,” an expression of identitiy

Question 2

A pw Predicate

Answer 2

A + pw, “He/she/it is A”

Question 3

A pw B Predicate

Answer 3

A + pw + B, “A is B”

Question 4

Participial Statement

Answer 4

Emphatic AB predicate
in + A + B (participle)
“It is A who Bs”

Question 5

The particle “in”

Answer 5

Can mark the beginning of a participial statement
Can mark the beginning of an interrogative nominal predicate

Question 6

in-iw

Answer 6

A compound proclitic nominal interrogative particle

Question 7

pw-tr/ptr/pti

Answer 7

Independent interrogative pronoun
Common as the A in AB nominal predicates
Means “who?” or “what?”

Question 8

iSst

Answer 8

Independent interrogative pronoun
“What?”

Question 9

Variable interrogative pronouns

Answer 9

These are ix, m(i), and zy
Can act as independent or dependent pronouns

Question 10

ix

Answer 10

Means “what?” referring to inanimate nouns
Occurs almost exclusively in the A position following the interrogative particle in

Question 11

m(i)

Answer 11

“who/what?” for animate or inanimate nouns
Occurs almost exclusively in the A position following the interrogative particle in

Question 12

zy

Answer 12

Means “which (one)?” for animate or inanimate nouns
Follows in in either the A or B position of an AB nominal

Question 13

Negation of nominal predicates

Answer 13

ni…is
nn…is
nn

Question 14

Nominal negation of existence

Answer 14

nn + A

“There is no A”