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		xfs on April 16, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What is the rule for adjective order? Interesting conclusion from the paper: [...] for ordering prenominal modifiers, [...] a simple n-gram model outperforms position-specific models This seems to imply that adjective order can be better described with common phrases rather than a set of definite grammar rules.

XaspR8d on April 16, 2013 [–]

Thus the challenge of modern syntactic theory - to most it is clear there is some structure occurring, but attempts to quantify it are still beaten by rather naive statistical approaches.

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