Subsective modifier

The term "subsective" is most often applied to modifiers which are not intersective and non-intersectivity is sometimes treated as part of its definition.

[1][4][5] However, subsequent work has shown that variants of the property-based analysis can in fact account for the data.

)[7][8][9][3][10] Examples of this sort have been analyzed within a Davidsonian semantics as modifying an event variable introduced by the noun.

In this analysis, an agentive noun such as "dancer" is formed by applying a generic quantifier gen to a predicate) which is true of dancing events.

[7] In this analysis, adjectives such as "beautiful", "meticulous", and "fierce" can denote properties either of events or of individuals.