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@Seninha I think you can think of it this way: A morpheme is the smallest unit of meaning, so anything from morpheme-level onwards has semantic content by definition. :P 'The', for example, is clearly a morpheme, and as such has semantic content.
@HsMjstyMstdn I don't know if 'three' tends not to be borrowed crosslinguistically (seems like a borderline case since not all cultures have the concept of 'three', but many do have 'three' but not higher numbers); but FWIW, the Thai word for 'three' is borrowed from Chinese.
Does anyone know good typological surveys of adjective order variation? I've realised that the prenominal adjectives in the language I'm doing for my field methods course mysteriously matches up with the prenominal adjectives in French, which is pretty freaky, so I was wondering if there's a conspiracy...
