How To Use Attributive In A Sentence
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attributive: -s/-l directive: -is locative: -eBy renaming the genitive case as "attributive", we make it clearer that these endings are not just restricted to mere "possessives" or "ablatives" but rather we recognize their many other usages.
Liber Linteus and religious formulae, part 2
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If complementizer phrases denote propositions or possible states of affairs, then it is reasonable to assume that being good simpliciter is being a good state of affairs, and hence that it is a special case of attributive good.
Value Theory
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An attributive clause is a clause that modifies a noun an adjective or prepositional phrase does.
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If none of these is the case, then we have an example of incomparability in attributive good, but not an example of incomparability in good simpliciter.
Value Theory
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Word combination often leads to strings of adjectives and attributive nouns, a style that began in Time magazine in the 1920s, with the aim of providing impact and ‘colour’.
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These effects can be explained if we consider more closely the function of attributive and predicative adjectives.
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I used an attributive, not a predicative adjective.
The Volokh Conspiracy » “We Have to Pass the Bill So That You Can Find Out What Is In It”
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When a quotation is followed by an attributive phrase, the comma is placed within the quotation marks.
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A brief introduction of the English Attributive Clauses ( Relative CLauses )!
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In his introduction to the book, the 6th word is an attributive adjective.
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Page 103. 3. vieilles gens: attributive adjectives are generally _feminine_ when preceding and _masculine_ when following _gens_.
Le Petit Chose (part 1) Histoire d'un Enfant
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Other details of Time's style, including strung-out attributive adjectives (bahuvrihi, to linguists), puns (paronomasia), and inverted word order (anastrophe) are also described in the Introduction, which one could only wish were more detailed.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XX No 1
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`red' is an attributive adjective in `a red apple'
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Relative pronouns and adverbs introduce attributive clauses.
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When an adjective modifies a noun (usually appearing right before it), it is known as an attributive adjective.
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[2] Bomhard/Kerns, The Nostratic macrofamily: A study in distant linguistic relationship (1994), p.161 (see link): Thus, in a consistent SOV language, an attributive adjective or a genitive precedes its 'head' noun, an adverb precedes its adjective or verb, a noun precedes its case ending or postposition, [...]
Etruscan syntactic inversion
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This is possible because moving can function as an attributive modifier of the head noun pianos.
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When infinitives are used to modify post-positioned attributives, translation methods can be various according to the semantic relation between modifiers and headwords.
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Ignoring for the moment any controversies regarding a proper translation of the phrase śacni cilθl, I would like to suggest that pattern A effectively translates as "for the [śacni cilθl], for the city and for the people everlasting" (locative -e + -ri = purposive/benefactive), pattern B means "to the [śacni cilθl] (and) to the city everlasting" (directive -is + -tra-is involves an action directed towards these things) and pattern C states "to the [śacni cilθl], to the city and to the people everlasting" (attributive -s/-l, implying an act of offering or dedication).
Liber Linteus and religious formulae, part 2
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I used an attributive, not a predicative adjective.
The Volokh Conspiracy » “We Have to Pass the Bill So That You Can Find Out What Is In It”
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When we use the expression a London Fog raincoat, we use London Fog as an attributive modifier of the noun raincoat.
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the genitive noun is used attributively
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The former is attributive (with benefactive nuance here), and the latter is directive (indicating motion towards) with the addition of a postposition -tra which itself is declined.
Liber Linteus and religious formulae, part 2
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A curious fact about adjectives and the way they modify nominals is that very often predicative uses have a more limited range of meanings than the attributive uses.
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The survey was actually part of an advertising for a medical professional headhunter service, and was neither scientific, nor attributive.
R_urell: So, predictably, healthcare reform domin
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an example of the attributive genetive is `John's' in `John's mother'
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To shift the discussion just a bit, whether or not we say present participles and gerunds should be differentiated as distinct parts of speech, it still seems to me that except for in cases of a present participle in the slot of attributive adjective (ex/The steering wheel of my car is blue) gerunds and present participles take objects (I like driving my car).
G is for Gerund « An A-Z of ELT
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‘Fast’ and ‘big’ are what Geach has called attributive adjectives; ‘brown’ is called a predicative adjective.
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[Footnote: Originally 'connotative' was used in the same sense in which we have used 'attributive,' for a word which directly signifies the presence of an attribute and indirectly applies to a subject.
Deductive Logic
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An attributive adjective modifies an ungrounded noun, thereby contributing to the specification of the type designated by the noun.
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Relative pronouns and adverbs introduce attributive clauses.
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Parallel to the division of adjunct, we may divide sub-clauses into attributive clauses, predicative clauses and adverbial clauses.
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Attributive genitives are linked to the nouns they qualify by a system of connective particles.
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A sublime poet, his literary output is as long as it is impressive and includes: Jaap Sahib, invoking the many attributive names of the Divine; Sawaiyyas (quatrains); Akal Ustat (Lauding the Timeless); Chandi Ki Var, a ballad depicting the eternal contest between good and evil; and Zafarnama (Epistle of Victory), a defiant letter to the Mughal Emperor.
Ravinder Singh Taneja: The Incomparable Guru Gobind Singh
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There is no place to consider this claim here, but note that it would be surprising if relational uses of “good” like these were in fact a deep or special problem for noncognitivism; Hare's account in The Language of Morals was specifically about attributive uses of “good”, and it is not clear why relational noncognitive attitudes should be harder to make sense of than relational beliefs.
Value Theory
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‘Fast’ and ‘big’ are what Geach has called attributive adjectives; ‘brown’ is called a predicative adjective.
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And sentences like 4 are what, following Geach [1960], I'll call attributive uses of “good”, because
Value Theory
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The form of ellipsis includes compound noun, parallel structure, attributive clause, adverbial clause, parentheses, non-finite forms of the verb and transformation of sentences.
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˜Fast™ and ˜big™ are what Geach has called attributive adjectives; ˜brown™ is called a predicative adjective.
Existence
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The word 'attributive' in logic embraces both the adjective and participle of grammar.
Deductive Logic
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Proper nouns can: when we talk about London fog, we are using London (a proper noun) as an attributive modifier of the noun fog.
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an example of the attributive genitive is `John's' in `John's mother'
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Parallel to the division of adjunct, we may divide sub-clauses into attributive clauses, predicative clauses and adverbial clauses.
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We get a couple of noun phrases with hyphenated compound prenominal attributive modifiers like outcome-related, real-world, and whole-of-organisation, and that's just about it.
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In 'a sudden movement', 'sudden' is an adjective in the attributive position.
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When a quotation is followed by an attributive phrase, the comma is enclosed within the quotation marks.
