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"Adjectivally" may mean as a Predicative Complement, as a modifier in a Preposition Phrase or many other things. A twenty-first century function label is needed here - as, for example described in "The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language"
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24 January 2015
It's been true for both BrE and AmE, and actually, AmE is more conservative about resisting them. But trying to vie over who does it more is not the point in this context.
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11 January 2015
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Not a helpful change.
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→Use of noun adjuncts when an adjectivally inflected alternative is available: Repairing links to disambiguation pages - You can help!
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2 January 2015
8 December 2014
6 December 2014
Restore facts. Left out professional guideline at end this time, because refs for it are not publicly citable.
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Absurd example of editorializing, opinion-mongering; tone is unencyclopedic.
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27 November 2014
And by observable facts I mean semantic uses of which instances can be tallied up by linguistic scientists analyzing a text corpus
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The quote is not even needed anyway to state the point of the sentence.
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Restored. The usage distinctions pointed out here are statements of observable facts, so the POV and unsourced assertions are completely inapplicable to the case.
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