9.6.6. The relative order of quantifiers wrt. other types of modifiers
Quantifiers (including numerals) normally precede qualitative modifiers.
| három | régi | ötlet |
| three | old | idea |
’three old ideas arguments’
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Some adjectives that express the speaker's attitude or evaluation can precede numerals. Change in scope relation also affects the speicificity properties of the phrase.
| (tökéletes) | három | (tökéletes) | ötlet |
| perfect | three | perfect | idea |
’three perfect ideas’
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Quantifiers (including numerals) follow demonstratives.
| ez | a | három | érv |
| this | the | three | argument |
’these three arguments’
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Quantifiers (including numerals) follow pre-head possessors.
| a | tanár | három | érv-e |
| the | teacher | three | argument-3G |
’the teacher's three arguments’
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Quantifiers (including numerals) may either precede or follow a participial modifier. When they precede it, the participial relative may have a non-restrictive reading and the noun phrase is specific indefintie.
| három | felém | futó | kutya |
| three | toward.1SG | run.PTCP | dog |
’three dogs runing to me’
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Quantifiers may either precede or follow a participial modifier. When they follow it, the participial relative only has a restrictive reading and the noun phrase becomes definite.
| a | felém | futó | három | kutya |
| the | toward.1SG | run.PTCP | three | dog |
’the three dogs runing to me’
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