0 a word or phrase that provides additional information about another word or phrase. For example, in ‘a tall man’, the adjective ‘tall’ is a modifier of the noun ‘man’. -- คำขยาย
Such judgments are based on both biological reasoning and experience of where treatment effect modifiers have been detected in the past.
Below we will show how the semantics of the modifier is combined with the semantics of the constituent it modifies.
What is problematic is that it is now impossible to structurally distinguish between peripheral modifiers and predeterminers.
Nevertheless, it is generally acknowledged that of can introduce both complements and modifiers.
I will argue that the differences between relational and nonrelational nouns, and between complements and modifiers, are best explained in cognitive terms.
Section 3 will evaluate the criteria (both semantic and syntactic) put forward for distinguishing between complements and modifiers.
That is, they are all optionally complementized sentences containing some kind of gap, and are complements, not modifiers.
That is, in this case a new context has become available in prenominal position, being realized either as a temporal modifier or as an s-genitive.
