The AP is normally placed before the noun which it modifies. This yields an attributive construction (see: Attribution of APs). In the attributive construction, the noun displays agreement with the adjective:

In spoken language, simple APs are rarely found following the noun. Complex APs, on the other hand, sound somewhat artificial or bookish in prenominal position. But if an AP is found to follow the noun, it will not bear any agreement, as illustrated below:

Placement of AP following the noun yields an appositive construction. In the attributive construction, the adjective restricts the denotation of the Noun Phrase (NP). In formal semantic terms: the denotation of the NP is not equal to the intersection of the denotation of the NP and the AP. Hence attributive adjectives are perfectly compatible with negative and universal quantifiers, for the adjective restricts the denotation of the NP to which the quantifier is applied:

The phrase naan gouden Nome ‘no good name’ refers in all possible worlds to a subset of the set of names to which the phrase naan Nome ‘no name’ refers. The two phrases may accidentally have the same reference in a situation in which all names are no good, but that is a matter for pragmatics. In the appositive construction, the adjective cannot restrict the denotation of the NP. In formal semantic terms: the denotation of the NP must be equal to the intersection of the denotation of the NP and the AP. Therefore appositives are said to be non-restrictive. Bare appositive adjectives are therefore grammatical to the extent that they can corefer with NPs. With certain type of quantifiers, such coreference is not possible:

Appositive adjectives are grammatical in case they are accompanied by a quantifying conjunction yielding a denotation for the AP as a whole that allows of coreference with a negated NP, and coreference is by definition non-restrictive. In the example below, the appositive phrase does not restrict the denotation of the negated NP, and hence it is acceptable:

Such examples involve a quantification over all the values of the AP, and this apparently makes possible the type of coreference characteristic of an appositive interpretation.

However, APs accompanied by a Adposition Phrase (PP), especially present and past participles and pseudo-participles, can occur following the noun, while retaining a restrictive interpretation. Nevertheless, they still do not exhibit any agreement. Relevant examples are hard to come by due to the restricted nature of our corpus.