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This seems to disagree with you: >Oddly, languages either have the exact same ordering as English, or the exact opposite as English. And, nouns in various lang
by Thorrez 4y ago
This seems to disagree with you:
>Oddly, languages either have the exact same ordering as English, or the exact opposite as English. And, nouns in various languages fall in some designated position between the string of adjectives -- in English it's at the end, in Romance languages it's somewhere in the middle, such that most adjectives follow the noun, but certain adjectives precede
https://linguistics.stackexchange.com/a/997 https://linguistics.stackexchange.com/a/997
- naniwaduni 4y agoWell yeah, the adjective order is actually mostly semantic, and tracks something similar to intensivity. Varying adjective order is not normally a grammatical error per se, it's emphatic (though emphasizing the wrong thing is a pragmatic error).