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From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: Adjective order
Message-ID: <577@psivax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 29-Jul-85 12:53:28 EDT
Article-I.D.: psivax.577
Posted: Mon Jul 29 12:53:28 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 3-Aug-85 02:21:04 EDT
References: <521@mmintl.UUCP>
Reply-To: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
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Summary: 

In article <521@mmintl.UUCP> franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams) writes:
>
>Some time ago, I noticed that when more than one adjective is applied
>to a noun in English, there is an invariable order in which they are
>applied.  This order depends on what the adjective is specifying.
>
>I worked this out a bit further, although not systematically, and every
>adjective I could come up to could be fit into one of six or seven categories
>  This ordering was strong enough to seem like a
>grammatical rule; as in the examples above, reversing the order "doesn't
>sound right".
>
>I wondered about a couple of points.  First, has anyone else ever noticed
>this ordering?  I have never found any reference to such a thing.
>
	Yes, I saw it in an early book on a non-transformational
approach to grammer. I forget the title right now, but next time I'm
at UCLA I will try and remember to look it up.

-- 

				Sarima (Stanley Friesen)

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