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Linguipedia: New page: The term '''apposition''' is used to denote an adnominal modifier that is itself a noun (or NP) and is coreferential with the head noun. === Examples === English ''queen Tamara, my daug...

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New page: The term '''apposition''' is used to denote an adnominal modifier that is itself a noun (or NP) and is coreferential with the head noun. === Examples === English ''queen Tamara, my daug...

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The term '''apposition''' is used to denote an adnominal modifier that is itself a noun (or NP) and is coreferential with the head noun.

=== Examples ===

English ''queen Tamara, my daughter Semiramis''

::*''“The paradigm case of apposition is exemplified in ''I met your brother, the poet'', where a noun phrase ''the poet'' is apposed to a preceding noun phrase ''your brother'', which in turn is the object of ''met''. The relationship is realised by the sequence alone, with no construction marker.”'' (Matthews 1981:224-225)

=== Comments ===
The term can refer both to the modifier itself (“in the expression ''queen Tamara'', ''queen'' is an apposition”) and to the relation between the head and the modifier (“''queen'' stands in an apposition relation to ''Tamara''”).

=== Subtypes ===
*[[close apposition]]
*[[loose apposition]]

=== Polysemy ===

''Apposition'' can also refer to
* ‘non-restrictive modification’, especially in [[appositive relative clause]]
* ‘expansion of a pronominal index’; see [[appositive noun phrase]]

=== Origin ===
According to the OED, the term is attested in English since the 17th century.

=== Reference ===
*Matthews, P.H. 1981. ''Syntax.'' Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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