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- From: connolly@memstvx1.memst.edu
- Newsgroups: sci.lang
- Subject: Postpositive *adjectives* in English
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.222729.4153@memstvx1.memst.edu>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 22:27:29 -0600
- References: <168A41249F.JAREA@UKCC.UKY.EDU>
- Organization: Memphis State University
- Lines: 14
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- In article <168A41249F.JAREA@UKCC.UKY.EDU>, JAREA@UKCC.UKY.EDU writes:
- > It is _not_ the case that articles in French (or English for that matter)
- > can follow their nouns. Perhaps you are thinking of Rumanian, the only
- > Romance language where this is the case, I believe. So far as I know, no
- > Germanic languages have postposed articles. You have evidently been
- > misinformed about French.
-
- He's not misinformed: he just said "article" when he meant "adjective", as
- the post clearly shows.
-
- Unfortunately, I forgot to change the header in my followup to the query,
- so I do so now.
-
- --Leo Connolly
-