Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: In Iu Mien (Hmong-Mien; ISO: ium), adjective-like or property concept words such as 'long' and 'green' have been claimed to be lexicalized as verbs rather than adjectives (Court 1985, Arisawa 2016). We argue that Iu Mien indeed has adjectives as a distinct lexical category. We present evidence from word order, tone sandhi, and a class of exceptional adjectives, showing that adjectives differ in their syntactic and phonological behavior from verbal modifiers.
Authors: Low Saelee, Yining Nie
Institution: San Jose State University
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4409315109