On the order of demonstrative, numeral, adjective, and noun

This article reports on a typological study of the order of demonstrative, numeral, adjective, and noun, based on a sample of 576 languages. I propose a set of five surface principles which interact to predict the relative frequencies of the different orders of these four elements, whereby the more...

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Published in:Language (Baltimore) 2018-12, Vol.94 (4), p.798-833
Main Author: Dryer, Matthew S
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adjective
Adjectives
Demonstratives
Grammar, Comparative and general
Language typology
Languages
Linguistic universals
Noun
Noun phrase
Nouns
Numbers
Numerals
Semantics
Syntactic analysis
Word order
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