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Attributive-only & Predicative-Only Adjectives | ||
| Journal of The Iraqi University | ||
| Article 1, Volume 2, Issue 25, 2016, Pages 527-556 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Jasim Muhammed Abbas; Mahmoud Arif Edan | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Adjectives can be sub-classified according to whether they can function as: 1. attributive only, 2. predicative only, 3. central, which hasn't been dealt with in this research. The restrictions of adjectives to attributive or predicative use are not always absolute, and sometimes vary with individual speakers. In general, adjectives that are restricted to attributive position or that occur predominantly in attributive position do not characterize the referent of the noun directly. For example, an old friend (one who has been a friend for a long period of time) does not necessarily imply that the person is old, so that we can not relate my old friend to my friend is old. In that use, old is attributive only. Some adjectives have a heightening or lowering effect on the noun they modify. Two semantic subclasses of intensifying adjectives can be distinguished for the present study: emphasizers and amplifiers. Emphasizers are attributive only, while amplifiers are attributive only when they are non-inherent. | ||
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