ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with the predicative use, and with the grammar of attributive adjectives. Adjectives are the descriptive words that help identify the referent of a particular noun by specifying some of its attributes. Members of a small set of adjectives are usually preceded by go when used as predicates, although there is some dialect variation. The adjective may also be found alone with the copula on occasion, particularly in the case of adjectives that take a complement clause. Adjectives use initial mutations to show gender agreement. Specifically, an attributive adjective following a singular feminine noun is marked by lenition of its first consonant. The genitive marking of adjectives varies with gender and number. Starting with the singular forms, initial consonants of genitive adjectives following masculine nouns are lenited and a final broad consonant becomes slender; slender consonants remain unchanged.
