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

From: Jacques Guy (jguy_at_alphalink.com.au)
Date: 02/15/05 

Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 15:21:29 +1000

Neeraj Mathur wrote:

> > "un savant aveugle" /o~ savă aveogl/ = a blind scholar
> > "un savant aveugle" /o~ savă t avogl/ = a learned blind man.

I see that my <oe> came out as <o> Let me try again (a test):

ö~ savă avögl

Will come out unmangled?
 
> Cool - is that generally true, that in the order adjective - noun the
> liaison is made, but in noun-adjective it is not?

I honestly don't know. I never thought about it. As I have
already said here: "I just speak the language".

> The person I heard this
> from the first time said that there was no choice, and that surprised me.

There is no choice in that sense that if you mean "a learned blind man"
you _have to_ make the liaison.