Talk:Noun adjunct

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This article's attempt to define "noun adjunct" seems needlessly jargonistic. Yet, if the editors here decide to keep the article, the "noun adjunct" term is fitfully inadequate to the linguistic concepts of what a noun and an adjunct respectively entail. A term such as "noun adjunct" could reasonably be construed to include any of the words that are italicized in the following examples:

• "I ordered the best meal." (prepositive adjective that functions as an adjunct)
• "I ordered the best meal around. (postpositive adjective that functions as an adjunct)
• "I ordered the best meal around town. (attributive prepositional phrase that functions as an adjunct)
• "I ordered the best restaurant meal around town." (attributive noun that functions as an adjunct)
• "I ordered you the best restaurant meal around town." (dative object that functions as an adjunct)
• "I ordered you the best restaurant meal to be found around town." (attributive to-infinitive phrase that functions as an adjunct)

If, on the other hand, this article intends to describe only those instances in which a noun constitutes "an optional noun that modifies another noun," then attributive noun or adjunctive noun seem infinitely better terms not only for this article's underlying concept but also for its title. Kent Dominic 01:54, 6 April 2019 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kent Dominic (talk • contribs)

Garner's fourth edition reads

The three-syllable form is used for the adjective, my beloved wife, or the attributive noun dearly beloved. 
As a modifier of an attributive past participle, dearly is familiar in the set phrase dearly beloved.

What attributive noun is it referring to? --

Hi, Backinstadiums. Good question. No answer. Sorry. Some nonsense is best left alone. Kent Dominic 14:20, 28 January 2020 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kent Dominic (talk • contribs)

I'd say that beloved is the attributive noun (or adjectival noun) to which Garner refers, which in the expression dearly beloved alludes to an unexpressed ellipsis (excuse the redundancy), viz. 'friends' or 'persons' or some such. --Mark K. Jensen (talk) 20:08, 11 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The section headed "Using prepositions after such phrases" is wrong. The problem in that example does not depend on understanding the term "regulatory impact analysis." It arises because syntactically the prepositional phrases modify the noun "analysis" but semantically they relate to the noun "impact." The section might be fixed by recasting it as a warning that even though a noun adjunct may modify any of the nouns that follow it, subsequent prepositional phrases can modify only the last noun in the sequence. But I can find no references for that statement. Both as it stands, and as I might modify it, the section rests on original research. Maybe the best fix is to delete it. Marty39 (talk) 13:27, 15 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]