Karl,
I've learned to call these appositive adjectives, and yes they do come in pairs, usually. Sometimes you can have single word plus modifier. "Edith, proud of her vote, refused to remove her bumper sticker after the election."
Edith Wollin
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From: Karl Hagen [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
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Subject: Re: I need help with a phrase
Jo,
AdjP can be appositives too. Or at least that's how I interpret trailing
modifiers in sentences such as
Lear was a foolish king--narcissistic and vain.
My intuitive sense, though, is that we're much more likely to see them
in coordinate pairs or series than alone as a single AdjP..
Karl
Karl Hagen
Department of English
Mont St. Mary's College
Jo Rubba wrote:
> Herb,
>
> Thanks for your informative note. My reasoning for not identifying these
> as relatives is that the "that" of "the suspicion that he is faking" is
> not the relative pronoun/subordinator, but the complementizer (pure
> subordinator) 'that'--as your note about the absence of a gap confirms
> (that is to say, there is no grammatical role for the 'that' in the "he
> is faking" clause). This is the same as with clausal subjects and direct
> objects: "That he is faking is obvious" and "I know that he is faking".
>
> How does traditional grammar analyze these?
>
> Isn't it true that only NPs function as appositives (and I mean NPs, not
> nominals)? Restrictive appositives (e.g., "the short story A small,
> good thing'... ") are very noun-complement-like, so I can see how one
> might see the complement clauses as appositive, at least in function.
>
>
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