Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Figures
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Zones, and types of order
- 3 Semantic explanation of unmarked order across the zones
- 4 Syntactic explanation of unmarked order across the zones
- 5 Unmarked order within the Classifier zone
- 6 Free order
- 7 Marked order
- 8 Historical explanation of premodifier order
- 9 Supporting explanations of premodifier order
- 10 Discussion
- 11 Conclusion
- References
- Index
7 - Marked order
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 October 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Figures
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Zones, and types of order
- 3 Semantic explanation of unmarked order across the zones
- 4 Syntactic explanation of unmarked order across the zones
- 5 Unmarked order within the Classifier zone
- 6 Free order
- 7 Marked order
- 8 Historical explanation of premodifier order
- 9 Supporting explanations of premodifier order
- 10 Discussion
- 11 Conclusion
- References
- Index
Summary
General introduction
This chapter completes the exposition of the three types of order: chapters 3, 4 and 5 presented unmarked order; chapter 6 presented free order; this presents the last type, marked order.
Like the last four, the chapter starts from the outline of zones and types of order given in chapter 2. Specifically, it starts from the assertion there that premodifiers are sometimes used in an apparently ungrammatical order (but one established by usage), in which the unmarked order is changed for a special purpose. For example, ruby has a Classifier sense, as in ‘sweet-tasting [E] [old] [D] ruby [C] port’, and it has a Descriptor sense, as in ‘[beautiful] [E] ruby [D] lustre [C] tiles’. (Here, and often in this chapter, the zones are abbreviated to their initials.) But it is used in Epithet position in example (1).
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Premodifiers in EnglishTheir Structure and Significance, pp. 155 - 167Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011