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Re: [lojban] Why left-grouping of tanru?




On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 12:55 PM, TR NS <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:

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.

"adjective adjective noun" will always be right grouping in English because an adjective doesn't modify another adjective. Similarly "adverb adjective noun" will always be left grouping, because an adverb doesn't modify a noun phrase. Another common left grouping case is "noun participle noun", as in "fish eating bird".

In order to compare different grouping frequencies I think you need to compare things such as "adjective noun noun", where you can find either grouping: "bright biology teacher" vs "single parent household". Or "noun noun noun".

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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