an information packaging function in which the modifying stative concept does not narrow the set of possible referents of the object concept it modifies in a referring phrase; it simply adds a further description of the referent. Example: in The angry young men left the party, angry is an appositive modifier in the context in which it is adding a further description to the young men leaving the party, rather than specifying a subset of the young men, as with restrictive modification. (Section 14.3)