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Conlangery #49: The Noun Phrase

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Does the Genitive Come Before Any Adjectives or Numerals?

In English, the genitive comes before any other modifiers. It kind of replaces the terminer spot slot. Some people- well, it depends on the genitive. Like a possessive pronoun in some schools of thought are also determiners of a sort. I know that English, you can't get anything useful about English relative clauses because the relative clause follows. In Chinese, where everything goes before, I know that the relative clause usually comes first before any adjectives. So that makes sense. Makes it easier to parse, probably. Although that gets- Jim, were you going to say something? Yes.

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