One obvious trend in the development of the English language is the use of premodifiers, including nouns used as premodifiers.
现代英语的明显发展趋势之一就是前置修饰现象，包括名词作前置修饰语的使用越来越普遍。
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He finds that English premodifiers and postmodifiers are expressed flexibly, but modifiers in Chinese are invariably placed before head nouns.
作者发现在英语名词词组中，中心词的修饰语非常灵活；
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This thesis is intended to provide a cognitive-functional framework for a contrastive analysis of the ordering of multiple premodifiers in English and Chinese descriptive nominal constructions.