Re: French adjectives Re: All agglutinative languages are SOV-ordered?

From: Neeraj Mathur (neemathur_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 02/15/05 

Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 00:55:09 -0000

"Jacques Guy" <jguy@alphalink.com.au> wrote in message
news:42114EC1.7C67@alphalink.com.au...
> Hey, yes, that's right!
>
> "un savant aveugle" /o~ savă aveogl/ = a blind scholar
> "un savant aveugle" /o~ savă t avogl/ = a learned blind man.

Cool - is that generally true, that in the order adjective - noun the
liaison is made, but in noun-adjective it is not? The person I heard this
from the first time said that there was no choice, and that surprised me.

Neeraj Mathur

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