The cognitive motivation for adjective sequences in attribution

Adjective sequences in attributive position tend to follow a fairly rigorous order, which was already observed in several structuralist approaches. Thanks to the insights of case grammar, iconicity studies and cognitive linguistics, these adjective sequences can now also be given a semantic, i.e. a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: René Dirven
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad de La Rioja 1999-05-01
Series:Journal of English Studies
Online Access:https://publicaciones.unirioja.es/ojs/index.php/jes/article/view/42