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Re: Never violate a universal unless it seems like a good idea at the time

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Thursday, September 4, 2003, 21:20
Quoting Tristan McLeay <zsau@...>:

> On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Andreas Johansson wrote: > > > Universal 40. When the adjective follows the noun, the adjective expresses > all > > the inflectional categories of the noun. In such cases the noun may lack > overt > > expression of one or all of these categories. > > Does (Spoken) French obey this one?
I wondered that too ... but I'm not that knowledgeable on things Frenchy. Presumably Christophe'll soon chime in if that's the case.
> > I guess I shall put my trust in ALF on this point ... > > That alien guy from that tv. show? Or is there another ALF more deserving > of trust?
"Andreas' Law of Freaks". Name given by John Cowan to the law that says for any conlang feature you can think of, there's an anadewism, after I posted a message asking whether we'd given a name to that law. Andreas