Adjective-Noun order

[Jennifer Culbertson]

Hi all,

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?

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.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Jennifer Culbertson
Assistant Professor
Linguistics Program
George Mason University
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