The attributive adjective version of the term front line ( as in " our front-line personnel " ) describes materiel or personnel intended for or actively in forward use : at sea, on land or in the air : " at " the front line.
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Quoting one editor : " Gibraltarian in its adjectival form is very much the exception rather than the rule in Gibraltar, as evidenced by the number of places which use the attributive adjective'Gibraltar', e . g . the Gibraltar Airport, or the Gibraltar Tourist Office.
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Attributive adjectives, and other noun modifiers, may be used either " restrictively " ( helping to identify the noun's referent, hence " restricting " its reference ) or " non-restrictively " ( helping to describe an already-identified noun ).
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Attributive adjectives, however, are predicates that take their head noun as their argument, hence " big " is a predicate in tree ( b ) that takes " bones " as its one argument; the semantic dependency points up the tree and therefore runs counter to the syntactic dependency.
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An interesting trait of these phrases in English is that an attributive adjective alone generally precedes the noun, e . g . " a proud man ", whereas a head-initial or head-medial adjective phrase follows its noun, e . g . " a man proud of his children ".
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In other words, the traditional NP-analysis is consistent with the fact that determiners behave just like attributive adjectives with respect to long-distance dependencies, whereas the DP-analsysis cannot appeal to left branches to account for this behavior because on the DP-analysis, the determiner is no longer on a left branch underneath the noun.
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An example of a verbal adjective with verb-like features is the word " wearing " in the sentence " The man wearing a hat is my father " ( it behaves as a verb in taking an object, " a hat ", although the resulting phrase " wearing a hat " functions like an attributive adjective in modifying " man " ).
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:The 1st one seems wrong to me, isn't " bellum " here used in its basic form, while " war " is used as an attributive adjective to ladder or something . . . Hmm, I think I think correctly, but express it incorrectly . . . = S Please improve . . . Basically, in Latin case is a lot more important than word order, don't try translating something word by word without analysis, since you're bound to get wrong . ?` qN RK0?? 23 : 52, 25 February 2007 ( UTC)
