Descriptive adjectives answer the question, What quality does it have?, whereas classificatory (also known as relational) adjectives answer the question, What kind is it?
Ex: My cat is a Siamese cat. [+Classificatory]
Check out this page: ADJECTIVE PHRASE, and additional examples here (Scroll down to 9.) There's also this paper, Relational adjectives and the property of kinds by Louise McNally (2004), which is cited in this paper (Scroll down to section 2.1 on page 3).
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- 20-Jul-2007, 08:04 #1
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Classified and Descriptive Attributives Could you tell me what classified attributives and descriptive attributives are?
I would greatly appreciate it if the examples could be given.
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- 20-Jul-2007, 13:13 #2
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Re: Classified and Descriptive Attributives Last edited by Casiopea; 20-Jul-2007 at 13:21.
- 20-Jul-2007, 14:40 #3
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Re: Classified and Descriptive Attributives Thank you so much, Casiopea.
Originally Posted by Casiopea 
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