• Dutch
  • Frisian
  • Saterfrisian
  • Afrikaans
Show all
Partitive adjective construction
quickinfo

Neither the morphological superlative nor the periphrastic superlative can occur in the partitive adjective construction.

readmore

Neither the morphological nor the periphrastic superlative can occur in the partitive adjective construction:

1
a. Wat tûk-s
something smart.PA
Something smart
b. *Wat tûk-st-s
something smart.SUP.PA
Something smart
c. *Wat tûk-s-st
something smart.PA.SUP
Something superlatively smart
d. *Wat meast nijsgjirrich-s
something most interesting.PA
The most interesting
References
    printreport errorcite