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

From: Yves Euld?de (y.euldede_at_inbox.ru)
Date: 02/15/05 

Date: 15 Feb 2005 00:32:07 -0800

"Neeraj Mathur" <neemathur@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<curh9i$q1a$1@news.ox.ac.uk>...
> "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.
>
I don't think so. The example you gave here must be an extremely
exceptional 'hapax legomenon' of sense ! I can't think of any other
one off-hand.
But on a more general way you have to know that the location of the
epithete (before or after the noun) modifies the meaning: when it's
placed before the meaning is more figurative, when placed afterwards
it gets more concrete: "un grand homme" != "un homme grand"...

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