Jonathan EmmesediVIVIZ
SinB, Umji, and Eunha show us that Korean is an SOV (Subject-Object-Verb) language.
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Zoe 💜Following the standard adjective order in english, shouldn’t it be “mutant teenage ninja turtles”?
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whatatwitWord of Mouth (BBC audio)
English Word Order
Michael Rosen talks to linguist Dr. Laura Bailey about word order. We learn for adjectives in English it's opinion, size, age, shape, colour, origin, material, purpose then noun. Hence; lovely, little, old, rectangular, green, French, silver, whittling knife. She says even babies get word order right and do so by their 2nd word.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00202m9
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00202m9
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Herz++There's this one paper published by the Chicago Linguistic Society in 1975 that I found years ago and really enjoy, World Order: http://websites.umich.edu/~jlawler/haj/worldorder.pdf
It describes the concept of irreversible #binomials (link) in #linguistics: words or #morphemes that come together and (often) have fixed positions. Things like:
- body and soul
- back and forth
- in and out
- ladies and gentlemen
- head and shoulders
- northwest
- north-south
- this and that
- good and evil
Which when reversed don't really work (usually):
- soul and body
- forth and back
- out and in
- gentlemen and ladies
- shoulders and head
- westnorth
- south-north
- that and this
- evil and good
Because certain cultural values determine #WordOrder: things that are close or high above, sex, age, friendliness, agentivity, living beings, divine beings, among many other things.
It's very interesting once you stop for a moment and think about it. And it differs slightly according to each language too. 