These languages have invariant word forms, without morphological variation; they have a constant syllabic structure in the morpheme, generally monosyllabic but disyllabic in Malay; and they have a fixed order of modification, the modifier preceding the modified throughout Sinitic, the other way round in Vietnamese and further south.
Average values from the four ordinary breaths representing basal ventilation immediately preceding the modified breaths were used as reference for the modified breaths in each recording sequence.
It is unlikely that these various preceding therapies modified or altered the observed therapeutic effect in this study.
This sequence, where the minor process precedes the main process of the clause, might be taken as another case of "the modifier precedes the modified", whereby a circumstantial element has the function of modifying the general character of the process.
This is typically expressed as the principle that in Chinese "the modifier precedes the modified".
The adverbial-predicate relation emerged partly due to the syntactic and semantic similarities to the adverbial-predicate relation in Mandarin Chinese, wherein the adverbial modifiers generally precede their modified elements.
Similarly, methionine sulfoxide reductases are less active when acidic, or proline residues, enriched in IDPs, precede the modified methionines and are more active in disordered regions.
We now restrict ourselves to the suitably modified preceding fragment of sequence (3.1), i.e., L N − 3 → d N − 3 L N − 2 → D N − 2 L N − 1. Open image in new window.
Relative clauses preceding numeral phrases modify the whole numeral phrase, while relative clauses appearing in the position between the unit word and the noun of a numeral phrase modify only the noun.
The clinical decision was to precede with a modified radical mastectomy and axillary clearance of levels I and II, because of the size of the mass.
