On Friday, September 5, 2014 3:48:57 AM UTC-4, And Rosta wrote:
On 4 Sep 2014 20:50, "TR NS" <tran...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Also this isn't just my bias. Although it is hard for me to speak for any language beyond English, but there are known patterns from which I am drawing my opinion. See http://www.lingref.com/cpp/wccfl/25/paper1473.pdf for example.
How is that paper relevant to the thread topic?
It is just one example of a paper on the patterns of adjective order. Actually I just found this site which is more to the point: http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/english-grammar/adjectives/order-adjectives If you look at the order you can see they entail a right-to-left application. Left-to-right application only occurs when one of the adjectives themselves needs to be modified, i.e. there is a sub-clause, so to speak.