Attributive in Archi

In this paper I discuss attributive in Archi (Nakh-Daghestanian). Archi lacks an independent category of adjective and uses attributives instead. Attributives in Archi belong to a transpositional mixed category that can be formed from any of the four main parts of speech: nouns, verbs, ad verbs and postpositions. Based on a detailed analysis of their syntactic and morphological properties, I demonstrated that Archi attributives retain some of the morphosyntactic characteristics of their base category, whilst simultaneously having morphological and syntactic character-istics shared across transposed forms. At the same time, it can be shown that Archi attributives have a unique distribution and agreement pattern that is clearly distinct from any other lexical class. All these make Archi attributive simultaneously possess both morphological and syntactic characteristics of two syntactic categories.