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(104) Noun Verb Source
at 'hat' atat 'wear a hat' Bender 1969a
jōōt 'shirt' jōōtōt 'wear a shirt' Bender 1969a
jokoĦ 'walking-stick' jokoĦkoĦ 'have a walking-stick' Zewen 1977
joob 'soap' joobob 'be soapy' Bender 1971
juuj 'shoes' juujuj 'wear shoes' Bender 1969a
kal 'loincloth' kalkal 'wear a loincloth' Zewen 1977
kan#ūr 'belt' kan#ūrn#ūr 'wear a belt' Bender 1969a
kooj 'blanket' koojoj 'use a blanket' Bender 1969a
māj 'glasses' mājmāj 'wear glasses' Bender 1969a
n#n#ur 'sound of groaning' n#n#urn#ur 'groan/grunt' Zewen 1977
riin# 'ring' riin#in# 'wear a ring' Bender 1969a
takin 'socks' takinkin 'wear socks' Bender 1969a
wa 'canoe' wawa 'go by canoe' Bender 1971
waj 'watch' wajwaj 'wear a watch' Bender 1969a
wūt 'flower' wūtwūt 'wear a flower' Bender 1969a
2.2.7 Tense, aspect, modality and adverbs
Marshallese has a number of different adverbs and tense, aspect and modality markers
(TAM) that may surface between the subject agreement clitic and the verb. I will use the
term adverbial to refer to both adverbs, which are merged as specifiers, and functional
heads, which are heads of functional projections since, in Marshallese, it is often unclear
whether these morphemes are adverbs or functional heads. (See Cinque 1999 for a
discussion of adverbs and functional heads.) The classification of these adverbials as
adverbs or heads will not be discussed in this work, but a few of these adverbials will be
discussed in greater detail in section 4.1.2 of chapter 4. Instead, this section is devoted to
identifying the category of these adverbials according to the categorization proposed by
Cinque (1999). Thus the classification of an adverbial as tense, aspect or modality is
based on Cinque's system.
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