Third, people and things may also be described with qualities, that function in the nominal group as an Epithet:
The Epithet is less central in a nominal group; structurally it is further from the Thing than the Classifier.
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To be clear, here Martin & Rose switch their criterion for nominal group nuclearity from lexis ("unified lexical element"), in the case of Classifier, to the syntagmatic axis (structural distance from Thing), in the case of Epithet.
As well as creating theoretical inconsistency — two different criteria for the one scale of relatedness — this demonstrates that the authors do not understand the sense in which elements of nominal group structure are central or otherwise.
As well as creating theoretical inconsistency — two different criteria for the one scale of relatedness — this demonstrates that the authors do not understand the sense in which elements of nominal group structure are central or otherwise.
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