In the plural, the uninflected form can be used as an alternative to the inflected form only when used predicatively ( "'die man sint blinte "'or "'die man sint blint "'" the men are blind " ), but not attributively ( only "'blinte man "'" blind men " can occur ).
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Obviously these are all the stuff of puns, which usually rely on ambiguity for their humour value-but is there a name for this particular type of usage where an adjective used attributively, apparently about a certain person, may in fact turn out to refer to other people ( first 2 examples ), or an apparent verb may turn out to be a gerund ( 3rd example )?
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A class of pronominal adjectives, including ??? " eyn "'one', ??? " keyn "'none', and possessive pronouns such as ???? " mayn "'my, mine'and ???? " zayn "'his', display behavior opposite to that of ordinary adjectives : they are inflected for gender, number and case when used predicatively but not when used attributively . ( Absolutively, they behave as normal adjectives ).
