ABSTRACT
Literature on adjectives and other adnominal elements has often been characterized by doubts that the category of adjectives forms part of the word classes in certain languages, including Bantu languages. In this chapter, I seek to show that adjectives do exist in Ngamambo in both their attributive and predicative roles and are basically post-nominal modifiers within the framework of the AC when used attributively in a series that adheres to a strict hierarchy of ordering. My main focus is on qualifying adjectives like red and big that denote nominal properties, and my use of the term “adjective” is in reference to them. I consider other adnominal modifiers like demonstratives, possessives, and numbers together with adjectives with respect to ordering. I demonstrate that adnominal elements function attributively in Ngamambo as appositive modifiers that simply adjoin to the Associative Phrase complement of the head noun, and the induced FP layer to host them in the DP left periphery is unwarranted for the language.
