Rara #85

Legacy number: 85

 Number  85
 Phenomenon  attributive adjectives agreeing (in gender, number, case) when they precede their noun but not when they follow it (using the invariable stem here)
 Found in  German (Germanic, IE)
 Domain  syntax — agreement: controllers, targets, categories, domains, conditions
 Type  nonesuch
 Keywords  noun, adjective
 Source  Plank, Frans (1977). Markiertheitsumkehrung in der Syntax. Papiere zur Linguistik 17/18: 6-66.
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rot-es R?slein, R?slein rot red-AGR rose, rose red d-er heut-ig-e Sieg, der Sieg heute the-AGR today-ADJCT-AGR victory, the-AGR victory today
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Frans Plank · 21 Sep 2006
rot-es Röslein, Röslein rot
red-AGR rose, rose red
d-er heut-ig-e Sieg, der Sieg heute
the-AGR today-ADJCT-AGR victory, the-AGR victory today