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1.4 APs in conjunction with NPs
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Adjectives can also participate in a more loosely predicative relation with NPs than in a normal predication. A normal or complementive predication is mediated by a special construction, often built around a copula. An example has been given below:

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Dät Sjungen waas truchwoaksen.
the singing was average
The singing was average.

Some adjectives may take an extra argument, usually in the form of a PP, rarely in the form of an NP.

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In addition, an adjective may also be found in an adverbial position inside a VP, while being predicated of an NP argument of the verb. In this case, there is no copula mediating the relation between the adjective and its argument. An example has been provided below:

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Wät aan besepen uutfrät, mout hie nochtern uutsuurje.
what one drunk wrong.does must he sober for.pay
What somebody does when drunk, he must pay for when sober.

Here besepen ‘drunk’ and nochtern ‘sober’ have been predicated of the subject, without intonation break. This construction is referred to as a supplementive predication. Thirdly, a predication may be expressed in an apposition, a comment set off by an intonation break signalled in writing by comma’s. An example has been given below:

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Hie, nochtern, mout it uutsuurje.
he sober must it for.pay
He, sober, has to pay for it.

This construction may be referred to as an appositive predication.

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