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<p>Hansjakob Seiler published various articles entirely devoted to
your question, starting with<br>
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<p>Seiler, Hansjakob 1978, "Determination: A functional dimension
for inter-language comparison." Seiler, Hansjakob (ed.), <i>Language
universals. Papers from the Conference held at
Gummersbach/Cologne, Germany, October 3-8, 1976.</i> Tübingen:
G. Narr (Tübinger Beiträge zur Linguistik, 111); 301-32.</p>
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<div>I have come across multiple sources in popular media that the
adjectives within an English noun phrase must follow this
order: opinion-size-age-shape-color-origin-material-purpose.</div>
<div>For example, "a lovely (opinion) big (size) red (color) wood
(material) house” and not “*a wood lovely red big house.”</div>
<div>What’s curious is that I couldn’t find any academic source
for this (seemingly convincing) claim. I’m curious to know how
strict it is a grammatical rule, what are the
functional-cognitive explanations for it, and whether similar
rules (or tendencies) are present in other languages.</div>
<div>If anyone could point to any relevant previous research, it
would be much appreciated.</div>
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<div>From Otaru,</div>
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