The phrase "attributive adjective" is correct and usable in written English.
It is used in grammatical contexts to describe an adjective that modifies a noun directly, typically appearing before the noun it describes.
Example: "In the phrase 'the red apple,' 'red' is an attributive adjective that describes the noun 'apple.'"
Alternatives: "descriptive adjective" or "modifier adjective".
As for the blackbird type, consisting of attributive adjective plus noun, it occurs frequently, as in the terms bluebell, grandson, shorthand, and wildfire.
An attributive adjective comes, usually, before the noun and modifies it without an intervening verb ("a delicious stew"); a predicative adjective forms the predicate of the sentence, after a verb ("This stew is delicious").
Given this fact, Twardowski's analysis of 'presented' in terms of modifying vs. attributive adjectives is fundamental to understand what is exactly 'judged in a judgment.' For it is not only in presentations that we can distinguish act, content and object, but also in judgments.
"Good" and "bad" are anyway, Geach had argued in an article of 1956, nearly always attributive: adjectives integrally related to the terms they qualify.
The examples cited above also illustrate the normal word order in New Indo-Aryan languages: subject (including agential forms), object (with attributive adjectives preceding), verb (together with auxiliaries).
This is because it is unusual to have a string of attributive adjectives (ones that appear before the noun they describe) like this.
For attributive adjectives the rule is simple: single words regularly precede the noun, and word groups follow e.g., an unforgettable experience but an experience never to be forgotten.
Leezenberg contends that a Kaplanian treatment of literal employments of attributive adjectives like "good" already requires the acknowledgment of a special purpose situating parameter we might call thematic dimension, something like the spirit in which a speaker is speaking.
Attributive adjectives normally follow the noun they modify.
Indeed, strictly speaking on this view, there is no such thing as a dead animal (or perhaps if 'dead' is a non-attributive adjective like 'fake' that a "dead animal" is not an animal).
I make my bread deciding whether a word is an attributive noun or adjective, parsing adverbial uses over conjunctive uses, writing those delightfully boring usage notes in your dictionary.
