To discuss part of this, we have to introduce the concept of the “attributive tag.” These happen in journalism a lot, since we attribute a lot. In the sentence “ ‘This plan will cause our taxes to go ...

P. Kitcher, Positive Understatement: The Logic of Attributive Adjectives, Journal of Philosophical Logic, Vol. 7, No. 1 (Jan., 1978), pp. 1-17 Free online reading for over 10 million articles Save and ...

Anne Bezuidenhout, Pragmatics, Semantic Underdetermination and the Referential/Attributive Distinction, Mind, New Series, Vol. 106, No. 423 (Jul., 1997), pp. 375-409 ...

THE HAGUE, October 12. /TASS/. Endowment of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) with attributive functions is directed against Russia, Permanent Representative to OPCW ...

We use attributive nouns all the time, usually in the singular: “kitchen cabinet,” “tree stump,” “policy decision.” Sometimes, when the attributive noun is a group of people, it seems ...