Order of Adjective and Noun (Feature 3)

From Apics

Feature Annotation

Here and in other APiCS features, the term adjective is defined purely in a semantic sense, as a word with a lexical meaning such as ‘big’, ‘good’, or ‘red’. It does not include demonstratives, numerals, or words meaning ‘other’. In some languages, like English, adjectives form a distinct word class. In other languages, however, adjectives are verbs or nouns. However, for the purposes of the present feature, a word is treated as an adjective, regardless of its word class, as long as it denotes a property or quality.
This feature focuses only on the order of adjectives modifying a noun (or attributive adjectives), as in Englishthe tall boy; it does not consider the position of predicative adjectives (where the noun is the subject and the adjective functions as the predicate, as in English The boy is tall).
There are two possible orders of modifying adjective and noun: adjective-noun, with the adjective preceding the noun, as in English stupid question, and noun-adjective, with the adjective following the noun, as in French la maison rouge [the house red] 'the red house'.
If both orders occur, please select both values and indicate the relative importance.

Additional remarks

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Values

Value		Value Annotation
1	Modifying adjective precedes noun	Chinuk Wawa háyas kánim [big canoe] ’(the/a) big canoe’
2	Modifying adjective follows noun	Lungwa Santome ũa soya glavi ku mwala glavi [a story pretty with woman pretty] ’a nice story with pretty women’

WALS No.

87 (Total)