چکیده:
The article deals with the characteristics of noun phrases functioning in pre-position. Pre-noun modifiers, or attributive modifiers, are among the high-capacity structures in the contemporary English language, as they enable to devoid of prepositions and to describe objects in a laconic way. The goal of this research was to analyze the way scholars interpret this linguistic structure today, as well as to compare the terms used in defining such modifiers, and to analyze their structural and semantic characteristics. Findings of Russian and foreign researchers were compared, and semantic, syntactic and categorial ambiguity of pre-noun modifiers were illustrated. The material under study included latest publications in the sphere of design and architecture.
خلاصه ماشینی:
Pre-noun modifiers, or attributive modifiers, are among the high-capacity structures in the contemporary English language, as they enable to devoid of prepositions and to describe objects in a laconic way.
Pre-Noun Modifiers; Attributive Structures; To Denote; Semantic Groups; Lexemes 1.
Of the terms suggested by various authors in their research of attributive structures, we need to choose those which would describe the object of this research, that is, prepositional modifiers expressed with a noun, a participle, an adjective or a numeral (Nakhaee & Nasrabadi, 2019).
In her research based on the analysis ofrelations between the components of nominal groups, the scholar describes the following types of attributive structures: A 356 356 I Special Issue of Journal of Research in Applied Linguistics, 10, Spring 2019 whole-part relationship; location; material of manufacture; temporal relations; comparative relations; characteristic; belonging; source; object relationship ( e.
Based partially on the above classification, as well as on the study of publications in the sphere of design and architecture, the research enabled to reveal several types of pre-noun modifiers falling within respective semantic groups.
Apart from the semantic groups denoting the shape of objects, technical characteristics or manufacturing specifics, pre-noun modifiers have been found to describe the purpose for which objects are applied.
360 360 I Special Issue of Journal of Research in Applied Linguistics, 10, Spring 2019 Semantically, such modifiers may fall within several groups denoting various characteristics of objects, including shape, purpose, material, origin etc.