We even know which rules overrule others. It's implicit in the article, but we know that the pattern for ablaut reduplication in "Big Bad" overrides the adjective ordering rule to win out over...
We even know which rules overrule others. It's implicit in the article, but we know that the pattern for ablaut reduplication in "Big Bad" overrides the adjective ordering rule to win out over "Bad Big". Discovering these rules, how they generalize, and how they interact is something that linguists continue to study in all natural languages.
We even know which rules overrule others. It's implicit in the article, but we know that the pattern for ablaut reduplication in "Big Bad" overrides the adjective ordering rule to win out over "Bad Big". Discovering these rules, how they generalize, and how they interact is something that linguists continue to study in all natural languages.