Malayalam makes use of adjectives, possessive forms, demonstratives, numerals (ordinals and cordinals), quantifiers and nominals as phrasal premodifiers (Asher and Kumari, 1997:123-131) and relative clauses as clausal modifiers. Both the modifiers give information about the nouns they modify. The pre-modifiers in Malayalam can be further separated as in the case of English into phrasal and clausal modifiers. Malayalam makes use of predominantly pre-modifiers only. English makes use of all the above mentioned types of modifiers. Noun modifiers can be further classified into two types based on their constitution: phrasal modifiers and clausal modifiers. Pre modifiers are those which come before nouns and post modifiers are those which come after nouns. Noun modifiers can be classified into two types, pre modifiers and post modifiers based on the position of their occurrence with the head noun.
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