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<div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Tahoma;color: #000000;font-size: 10pt;">Dear Jennifer,<br>
There is a lot of literature on the position of the adjective in the Romance languages, and I would say that the consensus is that it is more a matter of meaning than of lexical specification. For French I would mention in particular the book by Linda Waugh
"A semantic analysis of word order: position of the adjective in French" (Ledien, Brill 1977). A more recent treatment that compares a range of Romance languages and argues that [Adj N] and [N Adj] are distinct constructions (in the Construction Grammar sense)
is Hans-Ingo Radatz "Die Semantik der Adjektivstellung" (Tübingen, Niemeyer 2001). I have also written an article on the issue that surveys the recent literature. I will send you a copy of that separately.<br>
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Nigel<br>
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<div style="font-family:Tahoma; font-size:13px">Professor Nigel Vincent, FBA<br>
Professor Emeritus of General & Romance Linguistics<br>
The University of Manchester<br>
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School of Arts, Languages and Cultures<br>
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<div>http://www.llc.manchester.ac.uk/subjects/lel/staff/nigel-vincent/</div>
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, February 19, 2013 4:55 PM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Adjective-Noun order<br>
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<div><font face="PrimaSans BT,Verdana,sans-serif">Hi all,<br>
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I'm interested in examples of languages which have lexically-determined exceptions to a general adjective placement rule. A very well-documented example is French, in which adjectives are generally post-nominal but a (small) lexically-determined set can be
pre-nominal. Do you know of other examples?<br>
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I'm also interested in whether anyone knows of any typological work which might suggest whether this kind of variation is more common for adjectives compared to numerals (or vice versa). I know of cases in which the placement of the numerals one and/or two
differ from other numerals, but I don't have a sense for how common that is.<br>
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Thanks in advance for your help!<br>
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Jennifer Culbertson<br>
Assistant Professor<br>
Linguistics Program<br>
George Mason University</font> </div>
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