The article is devoted to the study of marked and unmarked attributive constructions, considering the influence of semantic transfer mechanisms, taking into account their productive potential. Structural and semantic characterization of types of attributive constructions is performed in light of two initial theories – in view of referent status and actual sentence fragmentation. An independent research of relations between predication manifestations and the semantic and syntactic structure of a sentence has been performed by determining the valence properties of attributive verbs. The distinction between different types of constructions with the attribute complement is described and it is specified that there is a direct correlation between the type of attributive sentences and the emergence of predicative relation. The article is dedicated to the analysis of modification of the information structure and the status of the referent in sentences containing attributive object. Given the types of interpretation of attributive sentences and, based on the results of contextual analysis, it became possible to prove that change of argumentative structure in verbal group gives a reason to treat attributive verb with elements SN2 and X as a predicative focus of the sentence and permit to consider it as the complex secondary predicate.