ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses both the typological and generative literature various left-right asymmetries of natural languages. The left-right asymmetry implicit in Greenberg's formulation appears more clearly when all the modifiers are on the same side of the noun. The question that arises is whether exactly the same fine-grained variation that the chapter finds with the order of Dem Num A and N is also found with the order of the other elements reviewed in. In Cinque, the chapter documented it for the relative orders of Mood, Tense, Aspect and V. Barbie's shows that much the same holds for the orders of two auxiliary/modal verbs and the lexical verb attested in the dialects of Dutch, and Abel's for the order of three auxiliary/modal verbs in Germanic. The principle can however be stated as an absolute principle. Note that if the principle governing the degree of proximity of each modifier to the head is stated on the 'base level'.
