[Lingtyp] Adjective word order

Sat Jan 4 20:37:45 UTC 2025

Dear Ian,

Jennifer Culbertson et al. 2020 have attempted a functional-cognitive
explanation, see: Culbertson, J., Schouwstra, M., & Kirby, S. (2020). From
the world to word order: Deriving biases in noun phrase order from
statistical properties of the world. *Language *96(3), 696-717.
https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/lan.2020.0045.

Best regards,
Sasha

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University of Gothenburg

On Sat, 4 Jan 2025 at 13:08, Nikolas Gisborne via Lingtyp <
lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org> wrote:

> 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.
>>
>> Many thanks
>> Paul
>>
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>> Flanagan, P.J. (2019). A Certain Romance: Style-shifting in the language
>> of Alex Turner in Arctic Monkeys songs 2006-2018. *Language and
>> Literature, *29(1), 82-98.
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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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