Universal 597:
- Original
- The evaluative adjective always precedes the affective adjective.
- Standardized
- When evaluative and affective adjectives occur in the same construction, the evaluative adjective always precedes the affective adjective.
- Keywords
- adjective, order
- Domain
- syntax
- Type
- no genuine implication; rather: provided that
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- absolute?
- Basis
- some East African languages
- Source
- Heine 1980: 185
- Counterexamples
