question about patterns of N-A, A-N order

Fri Oct 10 21:11:39 UTC 2008

In morphology, Cutler, Hawkins, et al (1985) found that Prep-VO languages have prefixes and suffixes and Postp-OV languages have almost exclusively suffixes.

It has been shown that adj order relative to its modified N does not pattern with Prep-VO or Postp-OV languages. However, the following looks like a pattern in the few languages I've worked with: there are languages that have almost exclusively A-N order (e.g. English, German, the Neo-Aryan languages) and languages with N-A order that also have A-N order (e.g. the Romance languages).

My question: does anyone know of any studies on A-N/N-A order patterns in the world's languages?

Any references would be greatly appreciated.

Clancy

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