Datapoint Pichi/Predicative adjectives

The corpus only contains three unequivocal adjectives. When these appear as complements to the locative-existential copula de they denote a transient body state. When they are employed as stative verbs they denote an intrinsic value. Words employed in this way are fayn 'fine; be beautiful'; gud 'well; be good'; bad 'ill; be bad'.

Values

Variable copula

Example 19-142:
Tìdé dì human de fayn.
Tìdé
today
dì
def
human
woman
de
cop
fayn.
fine
Today the woman is (feeling) fine. (NOT: Today the woman is beautiful.)

Source: Yakpo 2009: 320

Example 19-143:
Dì human fayn.
Dì
def
human
woman
fayn.
be.fine
The woman is beautiful. (NOT: The woman is (feeling) fine.)

Source: Yakpo 2009: 320

Example 19-144:
[...] è big.
[...]
[...]
è
3sg.sbj
big.
be.big
[...] it's big.

Source: Yakpo 2009: 636

Confidence:
Very certain