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  • Order of numerals with respect to the syntactic head noun

    The dominant order in the corpus is before

    Word Order
    numeral is after noun when:
    numeral is governed by a word with Definite = Ind
    numeral is governed by a= proper noun
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    OR

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    OR

    numeral is nearby= verb
    numeral is governed by a word with Definite = Ind
    numeral is governed by a= proper noun
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    OR

    numeral is nearby= verb
    numeral is governed by a= proper noun
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    OR

    numeral is nearby= pronoun
    numeral is nearby= possessive modifer
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