[…] an attributive construction builds a constitute with privileges of occurrence much like those of one of its constituents, it is very common to find complex expressions built up by a series of attributive constructions, one nesting within another. To head ‘milk’ we can add an attribute to yeld ‘fresh | milk’.
- Hockett (1958), a pag.188

English has a great variety of attributive constructions. We give […] four sets of examples. In the first set, the attribute comes first; in the second, the head is first; in the third, the head is discontinuous and encloses the attribute.
- Hockett (1958), a pag.186