Adjective-Noun order

[Hollmann, Willem]

Olga Fischer has done some interesting work on this phenomenon in English, from a diachronic and iconicity-based perspective:

Fischer, Olga. 2006. On the position of adjectives in Middle English. English Language and Linguistics 10:253-288.

Fischer, Olga. 2012. The status of the postponed 'and-adjective' construction in Old English: Attributive or predicative? In David Denison, Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero, Chris McCully and Emma Moore (eds.), Analysing older English, 251-284. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

WBH


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Dr Willem Hollmann
Dept of Linguistics and English Language
Lancaster University
Lancaster LA1 4YL
+44 (0)1524 94644
http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/profiles/willem-hollmann
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Subject: Adjective-Noun order

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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