Universal #600

Legacy number: 600

 Number  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

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