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AbstractThis paper describes attribution in Old Babylonian. The principles drawn upon are the traditional view of Akkadian syntax, modern Semitic syntax, and the principles of European structuralism. Bringing all these together, while exemplifying and proving previous unexplained statements by using Old Babylonian material, renders the whole issue tangible for every linguistically-oriented reader. ?asyntagms are described, each component separately, as a pronominal construct nucleus with an attribute; this attribute is either a nominal or a clause. ?asyntagms, being appositive to a referent substantive (when occurring), are in the same paradigm with adjectives, which are shown to have the same components as ?asyntagms: a pronominal nucleus, an attribute and the attributive link between them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Focuses on the address of the problem of the position of the adjectives in the noun phrase in Modern Greek. Possible interpretation of the relation between the adjective and the noun; Differences between prenominal and postnominal adjectives in indefinite DPs; Motivation of semantic account; Observations between definite and indefinite NPs.

Demonstrates that there is no adequate treatment of adnominal adjectival modification in English. Problems in accounting for the syntactic and semantic differences between prenominal and postnominal adjectival constructions; Review of existing treatments; Proposal of a novel analysis for `small' syntactic constructions.