ABSTRACT
Unlike Indo-European languages such as English, French, and German, which have a part of speech called ‘adjective’ that serves to modify nouns, West Greenlandic is not typically considered to have such a grammatical category. West Greenlandic has two types of such noun modification constructions, termed attributive and predicative. Attributive constructions correspond to English adjective-noun phrases, while predicative constructions correspond to English sentences containing an adjective. If an incorporated direct object is accompanied by a modifier, the modifier appears in the instrumental case. The modifier tends to precede the incorporated direct object but can sometimes follow it. West Greenlandic constructions are sentences whereby the verb describes the subject.
