Fourth, people and things may also be qualified, by circumstances or clauses that follow the Thing. These elements are known as Qualifiers. They are phrases or clauses that are 'downranked' and embedded as elements in the nominal group. In terms of nuclear relations, they are more peripheral still than Classifiers and Epithets:
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To be clear, here Martin & Rose offer no argument whatsoever as to why they deem Qualifier as less central than Epithet. Moreover, on the criterion used to argue that Epithet is less central than Classifier — structural closeness to Thing — Qualifier is actually more central than Epithet, not less, and equally central with Classifier.
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