See attributive in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "Since both Attributes and Adjuncts recursively expand N-bar into N-bar, it seems clear that the two have essentially the same function, so that Attributes are simply pronominal Adjuncts (though we shall continue to follow tradition and refer to attributive premodifiers as Attributes rather than Adjuncts).",
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"text": "Grammatically, three ways of using adjectives can be distinguished: the attributive use, the predicative use and the adverbial use. We will only deal with the attributive and the predicative use here. In the attributive use, the adjective, within an NP, is attached to the head noun, e.g. a dubious company, a red balloon, the stupid driver.",
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\"歸屬的\"}, {\"code\": \"cmn\", \"lang\": \"Chinese Mandarin\", \"roman\": \"guīshǔ de\", \"sense\": \"having the nature of an attribute\", \"word\": \"归属的\"}, {\"code\": \"nl\", \"lang\": \"Dutch\", \"sense\": \"having the nature of an attribute\", \"word\": \"attributief\"}, {\"code\": \"fi\", \"lang\": \"Finnish\", \"sense\": \"having the nature of an attribute\", \"word\": \"attributiivinen\"}, {\"code\": \"fr\", \"lang\": \"French\", \"sense\": \"having the nature of an attribute\", \"tags\": [\"masculine\"], \"word\": \"attributif\"}, {\"code\": \"fr\", \"lang\": \"French\", \"note\": \"attributive f\", \"sense\": \"having the nature of an attribute\"}, {\"code\": \"de\", \"lang\": \"German\", \"sense\": \"having the nature of an attribute\", \"word\": \"attributiv\"}, {\"code\": \"ga\", \"lang\": \"Irish\", \"sense\": \"having the nature of an attribute\", \"word\": \"cáilíochta\"}, {\"code\": \"kk\", \"lang\": \"Kazakh\", \"roman\": \"anyqtauyştyq\", \"sense\": \"having the nature of an attribute\", \"word\": \"анықтауыштық\"}, {\"code\": \"kk\", \"lang\": \"Kazakh\", \"roman\": \"atributtyq\", \"sense\": \"having the nature of an attribute\", \"word\": \"атрибуттық\"}, {\"code\": \"ru\", \"lang\": \"Russian\", \"roman\": \"atributívnyj\", \"sense\": \"having the nature of an attribute\", \"word\": \"атрибути́вный\"}], \"word\": \"attributive\"}",
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"title": "attributive",
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