1357: Reversed Order of Adjectives pt. 2 Aug 29, 2018

As mentioned the other day, adjectives can be placed after a noun in English for various reasons. Sometimes is structural but sometimes it's lexical, such as in the difference between 'a special someone' (adjective first) and 'someone special' (adjective final). This level of flexibility is unusual, given that nouns are not often modified this way, and relative and personal pronouns aren't modified at all usually. There are a few theories as to why this would be, but given that this is true for similar pronouns like 'anyone', 'everyone', and 'everything', it is generally chalked up to the relative dissociation that people feel to these compared to other nouns.