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« on: September 05, 2014, 08:49:18 PM »
Yes, and I like the scheme you gave very much, but I have a new question… You said: ‘the premodifiers could be determiners, adjectives, adverbs, participles, or other nouns’. As far as I can see all possible choices in the list are parts of speech. Also you said that ‘ “parts of speech” is a term in traditional grammar for the eight categories into which words are classified according to their functions in sentences’ and I agree with it too, of course. But why in this case we can’t say that determiners are some kind of an ‘additional’ part of speech, so to say? Indeed, it is a function, but adjectives usually have a very similar function – they modify a noun.
Then we could say that the premodifiers are as follows:
1. “that” – determiner
2. “exquisitely” – adverb
3. “beautiful” – adjective
4. “September” – another noun
so ‘building bricks’ for a premodifier are parts of speech: determiners, adjectives, nouns etc.