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In Classical Ethiopic, a Semitic language, quantifying adjectives and ordinal numbers moved to preposition, while other adjectives remain post posed. This is likely a result of contact with Cushitic languages and eventually all modifiers moved to preposition.
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<div>Greta D. Little (1974) Syntactic Evidence of Contact: Cushitic Influence on Amharic, in: Shuy R. W. and Bailey C-J N. (eds.)
<i>Towards Tomorrow's Linguistics</i>, Georgetown U Press, pp. 267-275.</div>
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<div>On Feb 19, 2013, at 17:55 , Jennifer Culbertson wrote:</div>
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<blockquote type="cite"><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> </blockquote>
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