attributively

attributive | American Dictionary

attributive
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/əˈtrɪb·jə·t̬ɪv/
grammar
of an adjective, noun, pronoun, or phrase placed before the noun it describes:
an attributive noun
In "a young woman," "young" is an adjective in the attributive position.

Examples of attributive

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The graph on the left refers exclusively to the critical context of single attributive instances, and the graph on the right comprises all other instances.
The man who builds skyscrapers must be happy favours an attributive reading.
In particular, singulative once is incompatible with determiners and attributive adjectives.
Here he includes epithets, certain attributive adjectives, and honorifics.
These figures consistently show that intensifiers occur far more frequently with predicate adjectives than with attributive adjectives.
Such a difference, if found, could be accounted for in terms of difference in syntagmatic congruence between attributive and predicative adjectives.
On attributive and predicative derived adjectives and some problems related to the distinction.
For concreteness at this point, let us consider some specific syntactic structures for nouns in construction with attributive adjectives.
Of those which could be classified, 54% (50/92) were attributive and 46% (42/92) were predicative.
That is, such names can be expressed by either (a) a determiner genitive, (b) an attributive genitive, or (c) a noun modifier.
The attributive position is less restrictive than the predicative one.
The relevant adjectives are both of the predicative and the attributive type and may be prefixed (10) or undergo modification by an adverb (11).
Lexical item categories include nouns, verbs, adjectives (attributive and verb-like predicative), and adverbs.
He compared the acquisition of adjective agreement in attributive position within the noun phrase to adjective agreement in predicatives.
Thus, acquainted is possible in attributive position, but independent factors conspire to make this a rare occurrence.
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