ABSTRACT
As we noted in section 2.1.4, there are two inflectional classes of adjectives: those of the type mortu, –a, –os, –as ‘dead’, which show an overt gender distinction, and those like forte, –es ‘strong’, which vary only according to number. The first class is by far the more numerous. There are a handful of adjectives which can be assimilated to the first class except that their masculine singular ending is -o; notably grogo ‘yellow’, which apparently retains the ending -o even in the feminine in some dialects (e.g. Nuoro; Pittau 1972: 70), and a few pejorative adjectives such as the following forms cited in Pittau (1972: 70): bolloroddo ‘inflated, fat’, buluffo ‘cretinous’, maccocco ‘crazy’. We may also note the following invariable adjectives: mattessi ‘same’, paris ‘flat, level, even’ and the comparative/superlative forms medzus ‘better, best’ and pejus ‘worse, worst’. Adverbs do not show any inflectional morphology.
