1.9 Other premodifiers

Besides the four classes of closed-system premodifiers (predeterminers, determiners, ordinals, and cardinals/quantifiers, there are several other open (unlimited) classes of words that can occur before the head noun. These include:

adjectives

I visited his delightful cottage

-ing participles

I visited his crumbling cottage

-ed participles

I visited his completed cottage

nouns with -s genitive

I visited his fisherman's cottage

nouns

I visited his country cottage

adverbial phrases

I visited his far-away cottage