Peripheral adjectives

Asleep, awake, afraid...

Then how come you can say "I'm asleep, awake, afraid ...", and not "I'm little"?

OK, I see what you mean!
You can't say "the asleep dog", it'll be "the sleeping dog".
What I meant was: " are there other adjectives that can't be used a predicates"?

Hello again,
-an outright lie, and not the lie is right.
-utter folly
-his chief excuse
- my former friend
-a criminal court
These are the ones, I got from abook

Yes, great!
Merci, Cher ami!

Il n'ya pas de quoi. Am I right?

Tout à fait!
You can also say "de rien" - though I'm afraid it has a Belgian flavour, or so my son says -
Cheers

I don't quite see the objection to 'I am little'.

You sometimes hear 'I'm only little', for instance.

MrP

Thanks, MrP... I had always been taught it wasn't possible, but then it was some time ago...
When you say "I'm (only) little", does it refer to the size or more to the age?

I may have spoken too hastily...

In the Little/Small thread in the Vocab section, khoff perceptively says that '['it is little', etc] sounds like a childish vocabulary selection'.

I think this is true. In the instances where I've heard adults use 'little' in this way, there has usually been an element of humour or deliberate twee-ness. Take 'I'm only little', for instance: