In grammar, an attributive expression is a word or phrase within a
noun phrase
In linguistics, a noun phrase, or nominal (phrase), is a phrase that has a noun or pronoun as its head or performs the same grammatical function as a noun. Noun phrases are very common cross-linguistically, and they may be the most frequently oc ...
that
modifies the head noun. It may be an:
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attributive adjective
In linguistics, an adjective (abbreviated ) is a word that generally modifies a noun or noun phrase or describes its referent. Its semantic role is to change information given by the noun.
Traditionally, adjectives were considered one of the mai ...
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attributive noun
In grammar, a noun adjunct, attributive noun, qualifying noun, noun (pre)modifier, or apposite noun is an optional noun that modifies another noun; functioning similarly to an adjective, it is, more specifically, a noun functioning as a pre-modif ...
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attributive verb An attributive verb is a verb that modifies (expresses an attribute of) a noun in the manner of an attributive adjective, rather than express an independent idea as a predicate.
In English (and in most European languages), verb forms that can be ...
or other part of speech, such as an attributive
numeral.
See also
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Property
Property is a system of rights that gives people legal control of valuable things, and also refers to the valuable things themselves. Depending on the nature of the property, an owner of property may have the right to consume, alter, share, r ...
(attribute)
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Attribution (disambiguation)
Attribution may refer to:
* Attribution (copyright), concept in copyright law requiring an author to be credited
* Attribution (journalism), the identification of the source of reported information
* Attribution (law), legal doctrines by which li ...
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