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

En réponse à Tristan McLeay :


> > 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?
Yes. It's just that for many adjectives, the different forms hardly differ 
in sound (if you don't count liaison). But in French, the adjective agrees 
in gender and number with the noun whatever its position, even predicatively.

Christophe Grandsire.

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