Adjective may be more rigid in some languages than others; in some, like Spanish, it may only be a default ("unmarked") word order, with other orders being permissible. Other languages, such as Tagalog, follow their adjectival orders as rigidly as English. The normal adjectival order of English may be overridden in certain circumstances, especially when one adjective is being fronted. In addition, the usual order of adjectives in English would result in the phrase "the bad big wolf" (opinion before size), but instead the usual phrase is "the big bad wolf", perhaps because the ablaut reduplication rule that high vowels precede
Adjective phrase phrase. codice_1 Sam ordered a very spicy (and/but) "quite small pizza." (Sam ordered a AP and AP pizza) This phrase passed the coordination test because it was grammatical, and the adjective phrases were not creating ambiguous meanings when a conjunction (and/but) is used. 2) Ellipsis tests can be also be used to confirm if "very spicy" is an adjective phrase. codice_2 "Sam ordered a very spicy pizza, but the pizza Betty ordered was not very spicy." This phrase passed the Ellipsis test, because no ambiguity is created and the adjective phrase could be elided (deleted). 3) Movement test, specifically pseudoclefting,