On 12-Aug-09, at 3:17 AM, Phil Bralich wrote:

> Relative clauses, like prepositional phrases, can be either  
> adverbial or adjectival.
> Modifiers of location and time are simply not adjectival.  Time and  
> location are
> aspects of verbs and adverbs not nouns.  No adjectical of any way
> or sort could ever indicate time or location.

You mean like: early/late, daily/monthly/weekly/yearly, past/current/ 
future, previous/subsequent, recent, etc.?

These are the problems with looking at grammar purely through a  
semantic lens. You can't reliably categorize things based on their  
meanings. It also may be the result of a conflation of category  
(e.g., noun, verb, preposition, etc.) and function (e.g., subject,  
predicate, modifier, head, etc.). Things become much clearer when you  
stop trying to stuff all noun modifiers into the adjective category.

Best,
Brett

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Brett Reynolds
English Language Centre
Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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