Adjective (English Wikipedia)

Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Adjective" in English language version.

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Mastronarde, Donald J. Introduction to Attic Greek. University of California Press, 2013. p. 60.
R. Declerck, A Comprehensive Descriptive Grammar of English (1991), p. 350: "When there are several descriptive adjectives, they normally occur in the following order: characteristic – size – shape – age – colour – [...]"

britishcouncil.org (Global: 3,700^th place; English: 2,306^th place)

learnenglish.britishcouncil.org

Order of adjectives, British Council.

cambridge.org (Global: 209^th place; English: 151^st place)

dictionary.cambridge.org

Adjectives: order (from English Grammar Today), in the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary online

doi.org (Global: 2^nd place; English: 2^nd place)

Partee, Barbara (1995). "Lexical semantics and compositionality". In Gleitman, Lila; Liberman, Mark; Osherson, Daniel N. (eds.). An Invitation to Cognitive Science: Language. The MIT Press. doi:10.7551/mitpress/3964.003.0015. ISBN 978-0-262-15044-6.

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Partee, Barbara (1995). "Lexical semantics and compositionality". In Gleitman, Lila; Liberman, Mark; Osherson, Daniel N. (eds.). An Invitation to Cognitive Science: Language. The MIT Press. doi:10.7551/mitpress/3964.003.0015. ISBN 978-0-262-15044-6.

theguardian.com (Global: 16^th place; English: 11^th place)

Dowling, Tim (13 September 2016). "Order force: the old grammar rule we all obey without realising". The Guardian.

tufts.edu (Global: 192^nd place; English: 165^th place)

perseus.tufts.edu

adjectivus. Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short. A Latin Dictionary on Perseus Project.
ἐπίθετος. Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert; A Greek–English Lexicon at the Perseus Project

web.archive.org (Global: 1^st place; English: 1^st place)

See: "Attributive and predicative adjectives" at Lexico, archived 15 May 2020.

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Bowern, Claire (2013). A grammar of Bardi. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. ISBN 978-3-11-027818-7. OCLC 848086054.
Simpson, Jane (6 December 2012). Warlpiri Morpho-Syntax : a Lexicalist Approach. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands. ISBN 978-94-011-3204-6. OCLC 851384391.