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attributive
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attributive
Philosophy relative to an understood domain, as small in that elephant is small


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KC 13)] The MED data shows that only 26% (40 tokens) of all doubly marked adjectives are used attributively.
Nominalizations of verbs do of course occur but, significant to the case at hand, they typically function attributively, as genitives, or relative clauses, and not as the subject of a verb.
But what if the adjective is used attributively rather than as a predicate adjective following a copulative verb?
 
 
 
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