Almost any grammar or syntax textbook or dictionary of linguistics terminology defines the adjective phrase in a similar way, e.g. Kesner Bland (1996:499), Crystal (1996:9), Greenbaum (1996:288ff.
A predicative adjective (phrase) follows a linking verb and serves to describe the preceding subject, e.g.
[2] An interesting trait of these phrases in English is that an attributive adjective alone generally precedes the noun, e.g. a proud man, whereas a head-initial or head-medial adjective phrase follows its noun, e.g. a man proud of his children.
[4] In the following tests, consider the sentence: Sam ordered a very spicy pizza.
Therefore, the placement of the adjective relative to the subject is important for creating unambiguous statements.
[6] The adjective blessed is ambiguous in pre-nominal position because it creates a restrictive and a nonrestrictive interpretation (a), while in post-nominal position it only displays a restrictive interpretation (b).
Cinque discovered that exactly the same pattern was seen in Italian, because ambiguous interpretations only appeared when the adjective phrase was placed in pre-nominal position.
Next, other research articles also confirm that this word order phenomenon exists in Mandarin Chinese, creating ambiguous interpretations.