Attribute (as dependent)

The term attribute has occasionally been used to denote a dependent (in Bloomfield 1933:195ff., Hockett 1958:184).

Polysemy

• attribute (= adnominal modifier)
• attribute (as predicate nominal)

See also predicative attribute.

Synonyms

• dependent

References

• Bloomfield, Leonard. 1933. Language. New York: Henry Holt and Co.
• Hockett, Charles F. 1958. A Course in Modern Linguistics. New York: MacMillan.