Re: word order of adjectives

Ian Spackman wrote:
> The main point, of course, is that there *are* this nounlike modifiers
> which don't quite form compounds - quite apart from whether these -student
> (near-)compounds make for good examples.
Seems to me that the reason for the zones may well be how close they
approach to compound nouns.  Zone IV comes pretty close to being a
compound, but not quite (at least, not in my dialect, it seems that they
are in Padraic's, tho*), while zone I definitely does not make a
compound.

*I say, for example, MEDical STUdent, with equal stress on both words,
while Padraic has stated that he says MEDical student**

**PLEASE, let's not have people chiming in with how they say it in their
dialect.  :-)

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