[Lingtyp] Adjective word order

[Nikolas Gisborne]

Hi, Ian,

Bob Dixon and Peter Matthews have both written about the order of English
pre-nominal adjectives. See:

Dixon, R. M. W. 1982 Where have All the Adjectives Gone?: And Other Essays
in Semantics and Syntax, Berlin, New York: De Gruyter Mouton.
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110822939
Matthews, P.H. 2014. The Positions of Adjectives in English. Oxford: Oxford
University Press.
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-positions-of-adjectives-in-english-9780199681594?cc=gb&lang=en&#

All the best,
Nik

On Sat, 4 Jan 2025 at 11:50, Paul Flanagan via Lingtyp <
lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org> wrote:

> 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.
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> Many thanks
> Paul
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> On 4 Jan 2025, at 11:03, Christian Lehmann via Lingtyp <
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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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