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6. FINDINGS<br />

6.1.2.1. Pre-head dependents in nominalizations<br />

The pre-head dependents of nominalizations have been classified distinguishing between<br />

determiners (cf. [154]), possessives (cf. [155]), adjectives, which include adjectives proper<br />

(cf. [156a]) as well as quantifiers (cf. [156b]), adverbs (cf. [157]), PossPs (cf. [158]),<br />

relatives (cf. [159]), nouns (cf. [160]) and OTHER, which most frequently include<br />

negative particles (cf. [161a]) and ambiguous modifiers which can be either adjectives or<br />

adverbs (cf. [161b]).<br />

(154) Mixtures are also sometimes made of a more thick consistency,<br />

not much unlike that of ordinary Opiates, which is for the<br />

accommodation of such Patients, as cannot take Remedies in<br />

Drink. (E3 1678 Charas Royal pharmacopoea Remedy)<br />

(155) You must remember to cleanse the Wound of its clotted Bloud, if<br />

you can: but however go on with your work, that Bloud will find<br />

its passage out. (E3 1676 Wiseman Of wounds Surgery)<br />

(156) a. In Simple Wounds the Chirugeon is to afford his assistence five<br />

mammer of ways; (...) The first is, in careful and diligent taking<br />

away all such extraneous bodies as by their interposition may<br />

hinder the true Agglutination of the disjoyned Parts, (...) (E3<br />

1676 Wiseman Of wounds Surgery)<br />

b. The Flowers of the Water-Lilly endure as much boyling as the<br />

Herbs. (E3 1678 Charas Royal pharmacopoea Remedy)<br />

(157) (...) for being compos’d of powerful Medicines, they operate in<br />

less quantity, and work those effects by repetition, which could<br />

hardly be done at once taking. (E3 1678 Charas Royal<br />

pharmacopoea Remedy)<br />

(158) Cantharides and Psillie: by reason the matter of these things<br />

through natures working groweth more particular, & is not<br />

stored with such varietie (as I may so call them) of potentiall<br />

natures: (E2 1586 Bright Treatise of melancholy Academic)<br />

(159) So I leave it to every man’s Judgment, which Method is most to<br />

be confided in, either that where scarce one is ten miscarries, as<br />

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