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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 13 Oct 2019, at 11:02 AM, Hedvig Skirgård <<a href="mailto:hedvig.skirgard@gmail.com" class="">hedvig.skirgard@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Dear LINGTYP, <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In a recent paper on word order and cognitive universals, Alexander Martin, Theeraporn Ratitamkul, Klaus Abels, David Adger and Jennifer Culbertson argue that there are certain cognitive constraints when it comes to the placement of numerals, demonstratives and adjectives in a noun phrase. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><i class="">"<span style="color:rgb(42,42,42);font-family:Arial;font-size:13px" class="">First, the most common orders place adjectives closest to the noun, then numerals, then demonstratives (e.g., N-Adj-Num-Dem). Second, exceptions to this are restricted to post-nominal position (e.g., N-Dem-Num-Adj, but not, for instance, Adj-Num-Dem-N)."</span></i></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/lingvan.2019.5.issue-1/lingvan-2018-0072/lingvan-2018-0072.xml" class="">https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/lingvan.2019.5.issue-1/lingvan-2018-0072/lingvan-2018-0072.xml</a><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Is there anyone on this list that know of an example of Adj-Num-Dem-N being the most common order in a language? </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Caveats for the existence of "adjectives" as a category of course, anything that is functionally similar enough will do. (Same for the others.)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks!</div><div class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class=""><font size="2" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><b class="">Med vänliga hälsningar</b><b class="">,</b><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class=""><b class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2" class="">Hedvig Skirgård</font></b></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class=""><font size="1" class=""><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;" class="">PhD Candidate</span><br class=""></font></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class=""><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif" class=""><font size="1" class="">The Wellsprings of Linguistic Diversity</font></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="1" class="">ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language</font></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="1" class="">School of Culture, History, and Language<br class="">College of Asia and the Pacific</font></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" class="">The Australian National University</font></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#666666" size="1" class=""><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/hedvigskirgard/" target="_blank" class="">Website</a><br class=""></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" class="">P.S. If you have multiple email addresses, I kindly ask you to just use one with corresponding with me. Email threads and invites to get confusing otherwise. I will only email you from my Gmail, even if other email addresses re-direct emails to them to my Gmail (ANU etc).</font></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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