Editing Adjective (section)

==Other modifiers of nouns==
In many languages (including English) it is possible for nouns to modify other nouns. Unlike adjectives, nouns acting as modifiers (called ''attributive nouns'' or ''[[noun adjunct]]s'') usually are not predicative; a beautiful park is beautiful, but a car park is not "car". The modifier often indicates origin ("''Virginia'' reel"), purpose ("''work'' clothes"), semantic [[Patient (grammar)|patient]] ("''man'' eater") or semantic [[Subject (grammar)|subject]] ("''child'' actor"); however, it may generally indicate almost any semantic relationship. It is also common for adjectives to be [[Morphological derivation|derived]] from nouns, as in ''boyish'', ''birdlike'', ''behavioral (behavioural)'', ''famous'', ''manly'', ''angelic'', and so on.

In [[Australian Aboriginal languages]], the distinction between adjectives and nouns is typically thought weak, and many of the languages only use nouns, or nouns with a limited set of adjective-deriving [[affix]]es, to modify other nouns. In languages that have a subtle adjective-noun distinction, one way to tell them apart is that a modifying adjective can come to stand in for an entire [[Elision|elided]] noun phrase, while a modifying noun cannot. For example, in [[Bardi language|Bardi]], the adjective ''moorrooloo'' {{gloss|little}} in the phrase ''moorrooloo'' ''baawa'' {{gloss|little child}} can stand on its own to mean {{gloss|the little one}}, while the attributive noun ''aamba'' {{gloss|man}} in the phrase ''aamba baawa'' {{gloss|male child}} cannot stand for the whole phrase to mean {{gloss|the male one}}.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Bowern|first=Claire|title=A grammar of Bardi|date=2013|publisher=De Gruyter Mouton|isbn=978-3-11-027818-7|location=Berlin|oclc=848086054}}</ref> In other languages, like [[Warlpiri language|Warlpiri]], nouns and adjectives are lumped together beneath the [[Nominal (linguistics)|nominal]] umbrella because of their shared syntactic distribution as [[Argument (linguistics)|arguments]] of [[Predicate (grammar)|predicates]]. The only thing distinguishing them is that some nominals seem to semantically denote entities (typically nouns in English) and some nominals seem to denote attributes (typically adjectives in English).<ref>{{Cite book |last=Simpson |first=Jane |title=Warlpiri Morpho-Syntax : a Lexicalist Approach |date=6 December 2012 |publisher=Springer Netherlands |isbn=978-94-011-3204-6 |location=Dordrecht |oclc=851384391}}</ref>

Many languages have [[participle]] forms that can act as noun modifiers either alone or as the head of a phrase. Sometimes participles develop into functional usage as adjectives. Examples in English include ''relieved'' (the past participle of ''relieve''), used as an adjective in [[passive voice]] constructs such as "I am so ''relieved'' to see you". Other examples include ''spoken'' (the past participle of ''speak'') and ''going'' (the present participle of ''go''), which function as attribute adjectives in such phrases as "the ''spoken'' word" and "the ''going'' rate".

Other constructs that often modify nouns include [[preposition]]al phrases (as in "a rebel ''without a cause''"), [[relative clause]]s (as in "the man ''who wasn't there''"), and [[infinitive]] phrases (as in "a cake ''to die for''"). Some nouns can also take complements such as [[content clause]]s (as in "the idea ''that I would do that''"), but these are not commonly considered [[Grammatical modifier|modifiers]]. For more information about possible modifiers and dependents of nouns, see [[Noun phrase#Components of noun phrases|Components of noun phrases]].