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Genitives, adjectives, and relative clauses all come after the head noun, but numerals and most determiners precede it. | Genitives, adjectives, and relative clauses all come after the head noun, but numerals and most determiners precede it. | ||
When the article of a genitive NP is omitted, speakers may parse it as an attributive noun (serving a similar purpose to English attributive nouns and | When the article of a genitive NP is omitted, speakers may parse it as an attributive noun (serving a similar purpose to English attributive nouns and compounding). | ||
TODO: The canonical order of modifiers | TODO: The canonical order of modifiers | ||