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Nouns As Adjectives

Arden lacks a syntactic class of true adjectives. Nouns of states and qualities are used instead, in a construction where the attribute is taken as the head of the noun phrase, to which the modified noun is attached as a genitive complement. This is similar to the kind of metaphorical usage found in some language. For example, in English one may say "A love of a girl" to mean "A lovable girl."

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