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"If this is just a learned relationship between things, the order of the adjectives shouldn't matter" Why not? Couldn't the order also be a learned relationshi
by aantthony 10y ago
"If this is just a learned relationship between things, the order of the adjectives shouldn't matter"
Why not? Couldn't the order also be a learned relationship?
- js8 10y agoIt can be, but the same order comes up naturally in many languages. If it really doesn't matter and is just a learned convention, it could be different in different languages, just like ordering of "subject verb" is a convention (but I am not a language expert, I really only know Czech and English).
- dalke 10y agoBoth Czech and English are Indo-European. The stronger test would be to compare with more diverse languages. I do not know the answer. I did find from http://wals.info/chapter/87 http://wals.info/chapter/87 that in Ojibwa, "words expressing adjectival meaning are really verbs".