Adjectival meanings in Telugu are typically expressed by composing Property Concept (PC) nouns or roots (Dixon 1982) with the entities they modify using possessive mor- phosyntax and a copula to form stative predicates. PCs also compose with a variety of light verbs (LV), to form causative and non-causative change-of-state (CoS) predicates, based on the type of the LV. There are no deadjectival verbs in Telugu, instead PC-LV complex predicates are productively employed to express these meanings.
The restrictions on which PC nouns and roots can occur with which LVs reveal more about both the PC noun or root denotations and the LV argument structures.