Universal 113: Adj Qual ⇒ N Adj
- Original
- Adj Qual languages exhibit a clear tendency to be N Adj.
- Standardized
- IF adjectives precede qualifiers, THEN nouns tend to precede adjectives.
- Keywords
- order, noun, adjective, qualifier
- Domain
- syntax
- Type
- implication
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- statistical
- Basis
- sample of 316 languages in Dryer 1988a
- Source
- Dryer 1988a: 204
- Counterexamples
By a QUALIFIER Dryer means a function word (characterized sometimes in generative work as a degree word and in traditional grammar, misleadingly, as a type of adverb) that qualifies or intensifies an adjective. Among the qualifiers in English are very, more, and somewhat.