IMMIGRATION thread

[Montmorency]

Apposition (as a relation) and coordination as defined in the sources you cite deal with MEANING.

But whatever the drawbacks of those definitions might be, we here spoke not of RELATIONS, but of GRAMMATUCAL CONSTRUCTION the definition of which you referred to in the wikipedia article and which is described in the sources I cited.

So you still don't see how you are contradicting yourself and the cited materials?

Modification is not a subset of apposition, nor are they synonymous.

[Gilrandir]

So you still don't see how you are contradicting yourself and the cited materials?

Modification is not a subset of apposition, nor are they synonymous.

The sources you cite try to draw the line between apposition and (pre)modification. It is nonsense. Apposition (as a grammatical construction) may stand in pre-position (premodifying the antecedent) and post-position (post-modifying the antecedent). But it doesn't change its NATURE.
The classification that your sources offer reminds me the classification of animals in one old Chinese "encyclopaedia". According to it all animals are divided into embalmed ones, suckling piglets and those that belong to the emperor.