Good evening, afternoon, or morning to you, people of r/conlangs. Today's Saturday, and that means it's time for another typological paper! Once again, there will be some prompts for you to discuss in the comments.
Adjective Ordering Restrictions Revisited (Teodorescu)
Today's paper is about adjective ordering restrictions (henceforth AOR). This paper was submitted by one of our friendly overlords, namely, u/Slorany. AOR are, as their name suggests, restrictions on how adjectives are arranged when there are several describing a single head. While the paper is a bit technical, especially later on, the first couple of pages should be understandable, even to laymen. Now onto today's prompts:
- Does your language follow the ordering given in the hierarchy on page 2?
- If not, are there other restrictions on adjective ordering that do not conform with the ones given in the paper?
- Does your language distinguish different types of adjectives that are affected by different AOR?
- Did earlier stages of your language — if you considered diachronics while creating it — have different AOR than its modern version?
- A more general question: how do attributive adjectives (e.g. 'the black sheep', cf. predicative adjectives 'the sheep is black') work in your language?
- How are they distinguished from predicative adjectives, if at all?
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So, that's about it for this week's edition. See you next saturday, and happy conlanging!