[Lingtyp] Adjective word order

[Paul Flanagan]

Hi Ian/ all

My PhD (2014) was on attribute adjective order, with a big focus on English (and an overview of work done on this feature) but with cross-linguistic perspective too. You can find it here: https://chesterrep.openrepository.com/handle/10034/605666.


Many thanks
Paul


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On 4 Jan 2025, at 11:03, Christian Lehmann via Lingtyp <lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org> wrote:


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Hansjakob Seiler published various articles entirely devoted to your question, starting with

Seiler, Hansjakob 1978, "Determination: A functional dimension for inter-language comparison." Seiler, Hansjakob (ed.), Language universals. Papers from the Conference held at Gummersbach/Cologne, Germany, October 3-8, 1976. Tübingen: G. Narr (Tübinger Beiträge zur Linguistik, 111); 301-32.

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Am 04.01.2025 um 11:47 schrieb JOO Ian via Lingtyp:
Dear typologists,

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.
For example, "a lovely (opinion) big (size) red (color) wood (material) house” and not “*a wood lovely red big house.”
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.
If anyone could point to any relevant previous research, it would be much appreciated.

From Otaru,
Ian

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