Attributives

All lexemes in Qohenje, in addition to their seven toned aspect forms, have an eighth form, called the attributive [ATT] form, which is invariably the AOR form minus its toneme. The ATT form of a lexeme is construed as an atemporal relation, and can stand as an attributive to another lexeme in any role. As such the ATT form itself can function as an adjectival, advebial or even "prepositional" (actually postpositional in Qohenje). See Nominal qualification, Verbal modification for more details.

e.g.

The ATT form comes immediately before its head, whatever the head element is.

ATT with Nominals

When qualified with an ATT form, the nominal head does not take any case mark, and no cejhan separates the ATT form from its head noun. Some consider it to be morphologically fused (see Nominal qualification for more details).

Qohenje allows ATT forms to be conjoined (with and, most commonly), but only really two at a time. Longer chains are comprehensible but ugly, and considered poor style. The translation equivalent of "the big black angry cat", therefore will necessarily restructure the proposition, something like,

rather than the much more ungainly

ATT with Verbals

When modifying Verbals, the ATT form adheres directly to the lexical core (i.e. between the verbal and its auxiliary - see Verbal modification for more details).

As with nominal attributes, Qohenje tolerates ATT chaining in Verbal uses, but barely. Two ATT forms in a row are seen in high register writing, but in general only one ATT form will be used to qualify a verbal.

ATT with propositions

ATT forms can be used to modify whole propositions, either alone (functioning thus like sentence adverbs),

or else with a precding LM argument of their own, thus functioning like English prepositions (or in fact, more like Japanese postpositions...)

Note that structures of the first kind, if the main clause has a LM argument, become ambiguous between a sentential and a lexical reading, e.g.

For this reason, sentential readings are usually marked off with an appropriate mild assertive particle (see Pragmatic particles),