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Book cover of Premodifiers in English

Premodifiers in English

Their Structure and Significance

by Jim Feist
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011

The order and behaviour of the premodifier (an adjective, or other modifying word that appears before a noun) has long been a puzzle to syntacticians and semanticists. Why can we say 'the actual red ball', but not 'the red actual ball'? And why, conversely, do some other premodifiers have free variation...
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