21 classified into three potential parts which are determinative, pre-noun
modification, and post-noun modification. Since post-noun modification is often combined or comprised all items mentioned above, it may function to identify a
specific subset.
3. Types of Post-noun Modification and its pattern
Similar to Quirk et al. 1985, Kolln Funk 1990 state that the post head word position in the noun phrase may contain modifiers of many forms
which appear in the following order:
Based on the figure 2.1, it can be interpreted that the noun headword is firstly post-modified by the post-noun modifier, prepositional phrase. It is further
iterated by participial phrase and relative clause. The detail explanation of these structures will be described as presented as follows:
Det HEADWORD
Prepositional Phrase
Participial Phrase
Relative Clauses
the people
from Toledo
living near my sister who own the candy store on Main Street
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a. Prepositional Phrase
Unlike other phrases, a prepositional phrase does not have a head and a minimal form of word. Jackson delineates that a prepositional phrase is composed
of a preposition and a noun phrase 1989, p.80, as illustrated in the following example:
15
A nice young WOMAN in jeans was watching me.
Leech Svartvik, 1994, p.345 It shows that the prepositional phrase of sentence 15 contains of a preposition in
and a noun phrase jeans. Literally, a prepositional phrase can be classified into simple and complex
preposition [Quirk et al., 1972, pp.300-301]; [Leech Svartvik, 1994, pp.352- 353]; and [Yule, 2004, p.154]. Simple preposition is a preposition which consists
of one word only, for instance at, in, and for. Quirk et al. 1972 describe the list of simple preposition as follows:
“aboard, about, above, across, after, against, along, alongside, amid F or amidst F, among or amongst rare, apropos of, around,
as, at, atop AmE, F, before, behind, below, beneath, beside, besides, between, beyond, but, by, despite, down, during, for, from,
in, inside, minus, notwithstanding, of, off, on or upon F, opposite, out AmE, outside, outwith Scots = except, over, past, per, plus, re
F, round, since, than, through, throughout, to, toward AmE, towards BrE, under, underneath, until or till, up, via, with, within,
without” Quirk et al., 1972, p.301.
23 From those lists, there are some simple prepositions that carry more specific
conceptual meaning such as among, before, below, beside, towards. Those contribute directly to the meaning of the phrase in which they occur and are
treated as having a lexical function Yule, 2004, p.158. Meanwhile, complex preposition is a preposition which consists of more
than one word, for instance in accordance with, on account of, for the sake, and in spite of
. According to their forms, the complex preposition may be classified into one of three categories Quirk et al., 1972, pp.301-302, as follows:
[A] ADVERB + PREP: e.g., along, with, apart from BrE, aside from AmE, as for, as to, away from, into, off of AmE, on to or onto, out of, together with, up,
to, etc. [B] VERB ADJECTIVE CONJUCTION other elements + PREP : e.g., except
for, owing to, due to, but for, because of, etc. [C] PREP
1
+ NOUN + PREP
2
: e.g., by means of, in comparison with, instead of, etc.
In [C], it is subdivided according to which prepositions functions as Prep
1
and Prep
2
: 1
IN + NOUN + OF e.g., in case of, in charge of, in view of, in need of, in spite of, in front of, in
lieu of, in favor of, in place of, in face of, in aid of, in quest of, in respect of, in search of, etc.
2 IN + NOUN + WITH
e.g., in contact with, in common with, in line with, in accordance with, etc.
