Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: Beyond Whorf: "things," "qualities," and the origin of nouns and adjectives

From: John Cowan <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 16:10:55 -0400 (EDT)

On Sat, 5 Aug 2000, Ivan A Derzhanski wrote:

> Still, there is a line:
> `beautiful girl' is _szép lány_, not *_lány szép_ -- the less
> nouny item (beauty) must modify the more nouny one (girlhood).

Hmm. Are there general adj. ordering relations in H. as in English ("great
green dragon", *"green great dragon")?

-- 
John Cowan [email-masked]
C'est la` pourtant que se livre le sens du dire, de ce que, s'y conjuguant
le nyania qui bruit des sexes en compagnie, il supplee a ce qu'entre eux,
de rapport nyait pas. -- Jacques Lacan, "L'Etourdit"