Queen Mary has a new OPAL.
Queen Mary has a new OPAL: Fryni Panayidou's 2013 dissertation, (In)flexibility in adjective ordering [PDF 1,276KB]. Using data from both Modern Greek and the heavily Greek-influenced Arabic of Cyprus (Cypriot Maronite Arabic), the dissertation engages with central crosslinguistic claims in the syntax of adjectives and argues, amongst other conclusions, that apparent violations of universal orderings stem from simultaneous availability of distinct adjectival syntaxes.