<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Dear all,</div><div><br></div><div>my reply is not exactly related to the original question about languages with lexical subsets of adjectives requirering different constituent orders inside NPs. However, in my dissertation on adjective attribution marking</div><div>* <a href="http://omnibus.uni-freiburg.de/~mr5496/downl/RIESSLER2011.pdf">http://omnibus.uni-freiburg.de/~mr5496/downl/RIESSLER2011.pdf</a></div><div>I mention a few languages where different constituent orders are possible but use different attribution marking devices. Examples are Armenian and Georgian.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Michael Rießler</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div>On Feb 19, 2013, at 5:55 PM, Jennifer Culbertson wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><font face="PrimaSans BT,Verdana,sans-serif">Hi all,<br><br>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>
<br>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>
<br>Thanks in advance for your help!<br><br>Jennifer Culbertson<br>Assistant Professor<br>Linguistics Program<br>George Mason University</font>
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