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Assumption:

Argument:

  1. adjectives are inflected for number

  2. no evidence that dual is excluded from

  3. Therefore adjectives inflect for dual

Extra-assumption:

Argument:

  1. adjectives have the same inflections as nouns

    • ? It only means that they had no distinct inflections of their own; not that they necessarily followed the inflections of nouns to a tee.
  2. dual on -t was like partitive plural, plural on -u was like general plural

  3. adjective agrees with nouns in partitive plural on general plural

    • nótime eldali, ondolisse morne, not nótimáli, mornali
  4. Therefore adjectives agree with nouns in dual on -u.