What are time words doing when they occur after a noun?

grammar syntactic-analysis

Solution 1:

[1] [People these days] have it easy.

[2] [People back then] didn't know about germs.

[3] [The news today] makes up for the news yesterday.

[4] [The meeting Monday] will complete the agenda from [the meeting Friday].

The elements in bold are all temporal post-modifiers in NP structure.

In [1], [3] and [4] they are NPs modifying respectively "people", "news, "Monday" and "meeting". In [2] it's a PP modifying "people".

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