| Lemma | attributive construction |
|---|---|
| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Hockett (1958) |
| Titolo | A Course in Modern Linguistics |
| Sinonimi | |
| Rinvii | constitute (inglese) |
| Traduzioni | |
| Citazioni | […] 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’. 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. |