Modificadores restritivos do nome

Abstract

This article deals with the indetermination of the categorial boundary between two restrictive modifiers of the noun: the appositive and the adnominal. The goal is to discuss what approaches or distinguishes appositive and adnominal. We initially make a brief review of how these two terms are analyzed in traditional syntax, that is, in traditional grammars and compendia of syntactic analysis of the Portuguese language. Then we analyze the characterization that the noun modifiers receive in the structural syntax, with special attention to the treatment given to the distinction between adnominal and appositive in descriptive grammars of Portuguese language. Finally, we deal with the analysis of these restrictive modifiers of the noun in the scope of functional syntax, more specifically in the theoretical proposals of Halliday (1985), Systemic Functional Grammar, and Keizer (2007), Discourse Functional Grammar.