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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