Universal #574

Legacy number: 574

 Number  571
 Original  Hierarchy of syntactic bondedness (stronger > weaker): article+noun > deictic+noun < interrogative+noun < quantifier/indefinite+noun < adjective+noun >
> participle+noun > relative clause+noun.

As soon as an adjunct category has an obligatory overt marker of its subordination to the head noun (such as ligature morphemes), all weaker bound categories of adjuncts also require an overt marker.
But bondedness hierarchy is claimed to be valid for other morphosyntactic differences between various kinds of adjuncts as well.
 Standardized  Hierarchy of syntactic bondedness (stronger > weaker): article+noun > deictic+noun < interrogative+noun < quantifier/indefinite+noun < adjective+noun >
> participle+noun > relative clause+noun.

As soon as an adjunct category has an obligatory overt marker of its subordination to the head noun (such as ligature morphemes), all weaker bound categories of adjuncts also require an overt marker.
But bondedness hierarchy is claimed to be valid for other morphosyntactic differences between various kinds of adjuncts as well.
 Keywords  article, noun, interrogative, deictic, quantifier, indefinite, adjective, participle, relative clause, boundeness, hierarchy, ligative
 Domain  syntax
 Type  implicational hierarchy
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  Austronesian languages
 Source  Foley 1980: 174

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Discussion
Notes
It is not required that every language have each of these as separate grammatical categories, but they will have most of them as semantically differentiable entities.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
It is not required that every language have each of these as separate grammatical categories, but they will have most of them as semantically differentiable entities.