`red' is an attributive adjective in `a red apple'. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
˜Fast™ and ˜big™ are what Geach has called attributive adjectives; ˜brown™ is called a predicative adjective. From Wordnik.com. [Existence] Reference
The word 'attributive' in logic embraces both the adjective and participle of grammar. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
On a so-called attributive use. From Wordnik.com. [Descriptions] Reference
'Not-white' is an attributive equally with 'white.'. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
I used an attributive, not a predicative adjective. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » “We Have to Pass the Bill So That You Can Find Out What Is In It”] Reference
An attributive is not directly the name of anything. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
Many style guides insist on a hyphen in attributive position. From Wordnik.com. [On hyphenating, or not] Reference
Other kinds of views understand good simpliciter in terms of attributive good. From Wordnik.com. [Value Theory] Reference
Since it is not an adjective at all, it obviously cannot be an attributive one. From Wordnik.com. [Existence] Reference
There is no good reason to transfer them from an explanatory to an attributive context. From Wordnik.com. [Causation in the Law] Reference
The attributive is defined, so far as it can be, through the corresponding abstract term. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
When an attributive appears to be used as a subject, it is owing to a grammatical ellipse. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
Care should be taken, however, to guard against an ambiguous use of an attributive noun. From Wordnik.com. [A Question of Grammar] Reference
Recall that in the attributive categorization model, the vehicle is a member of a category. From Wordnik.com. [A Connectionist Model of Metaphor] Reference
In such an interpretation nearly all the attributive features of these witnesses are ignored. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882] Reference
But this move appears to be implausible or unnecessary when applied to attributive “good”. From Wordnik.com. [Value Theory] Reference
In the third, attributive, context the aim is again selective, but from a different point of view. From Wordnik.com. [Causation in the Law] Reference
For one, it's not really doing what the attributive categorization theory says is involved in metaphor. From Wordnik.com. [A Connectionist Model of Metaphor] Reference
Once again, then, the attributive categorization theory resembles Black's interactive theory of metaphor. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-11-01] Reference
As an Adjective the Participle may be used either as an attributive or predicate modifier of a Substantive. From Wordnik.com. [New Latin Grammar] Reference
So, there you have it, a connectionist model of metaphor implementing the attributive categorization theory. From Wordnik.com. [A Connectionist Model of Metaphor] Reference
For definition is of things through names, and an attributive out of predication is not the name of anything. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
When an adjective modifies a noun usually appearing right before it, it is known as an attributive adjective. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » It Takes Too, Baby] Reference
In (18), the definite description ˜the first daughter™ has the attributive rather than referential reading. From Wordnik.com. [Defaults in Semantics and Pragmatics] Reference
And some predicative adjectives, like those beginning with too, get really weird when you make them attributive. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » It Takes Too, Baby] Reference
According to Ziff, all claims about goodness are relative to ends or purposes, and “good for” and attributive. From Wordnik.com. [Value Theory] Reference
Whether an attributive is abstract or concrete, depends on the nature of the subject of which it is asserted or denied. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
The "attributive Gen." is a comprehensive relation, arising under several of the above heads, between two nouns designating. From Wordnik.com. [Greek in a Nutshell] Reference
Other times, to make an attributive version of such an adjective, you have to wrap the adjective around the noun, likethis. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » It Takes Too, Baby] Reference
When the model is actually used, it exhibits properties of metaphors consistent with the attributive categorization theory. From Wordnik.com. [A Connectionist Model of Metaphor] Reference
In the next post, I will detail the attributive categorization model, and after that, we'll get to real empirical evidence. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-11-01] Reference
We will notice the attributive features of these witnesses as they are related by John in this chapter — that is, Rev. xi. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882] Reference
Nicknames may be proper names shortened to first or last syllable, or an occasional positive-attributive descriptive nickname. From Wordnik.com. [Concordance A Terran Empire concordance] Reference
But in Default Semantics there is no default involved in (18): we have WS merging with CPI to produce the attributive reading. From Wordnik.com. [Defaults in Semantics and Pragmatics] Reference
Now, we cannot intelligibly predicate an attributive of the abstract quality, or qualities, the possession of which it implies. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
Looking there I saw Mme. Forget, Mme. Gacon, M. Gacon, and their attributive crowd of mission children all in a state of frenzy. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in West Africa] Reference
When we say 'Socrates was a man,' we convey to the mind the idea of the same attributes which are implied by the attributive 'human.'. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
The survey was actually part of an advertising for a medical professional headhunter service, and was neither scientific, nor attributive. From Wordnik.com. [r_urell: So, predictably, healthcare reform domin] Reference
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