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Part of a clause predicate
A predicative expression (or just predicative) is part of a clause predicate, and is an expression that typically follows a copula or linking verb, e.g
Predicative_expression
Word or phrase necessary to complete an expression
predicative of the subject) and object complement are employed to denote the predicative expressions (predicative complements), such as predicative adjectives
Complement_(linguistics)
Functional part of speech in most languages
predicative expression. In some theories of grammar, the whole expression is on the table may be called a predicate or a verb phrase. The predicative
Copula_(linguistics)
Subject and predicate in sentences
the other defines it as only the main content verb or associated predicative expression of a clause. Thus, by the first definition, the predicate of the
Predicate_(grammar)
Phrase that can be removed, preserving grammatical correctness
adverbial function. An adjunct is not an argument (nor is it a predicative expression), and an argument is not an adjunct. The argument–adjunct distinction
Adjunct_(grammar)
Smallest grammatical unit that can express a complete proposition
are functioning just like other predicative expressions, e.g. predicative adjectives (That was good) and predicative nominals (That was the truth). They
Clause
Predicative expression
In traditional grammar, a subject complement is a predicative expression that follows a copula (commonly known as a linking verb), which complements the
Subject_complement
Phrase which grammatically functions the same as a noun
Noun phrases often function as verb subjects and objects, as predicative expressions, and as complements of prepositions. One NP can be embedded inside
Noun_phrase
Topics referred to by the same term
grammatical predicate Predicative expression, part of a clause that typically follows a copula (linking verb) Predicative verb, a verb that behaves as a
Predicative
Type of grammatical construction
(subject-copula-predicative expression, e.g. Fred is the plumber) is reversed in a sense, so that one appears to have the order PCS instead (predicative expression-copula-subject
Inverse_copular_constructions
In grammar, an object complement is a predicative expression that follows a direct object of an attributive ditransitive or resultative verb and that complements
Object_complement
(with present participle: She felt him breathing on her neck.) As a predicative expression in pseudo-cleft sentences of the following type: What I did was
Uses_of_English_verb_forms
System responsible for combining morphemes into complex structures
pronoun Phrasal verb Phrase Phrase structure grammar Plural Predicate Predicative expression Preposition and postposition Pronoun Grammatical relation Restrictiveness
Syntax
Part of speech that names an object or set of objects
it as a "predicate nominal over the subject" (as in the article Predicative expression); but all would agree that it is not an object since became is not
Noun
Grammatical use indicating possession
etc., as determined by the context. A related use is that of the predicative expression, as in sentences like the book is mine. Here mine may be considered
Possessive
Word class or 'part of speech'
the weather in March cheese from France with live bacteria As a predicative expression (complement of a copula) The key is under the stone. As an adjunct
Adposition
Method of computer program specification
Predicative programming is the original name of a formal method for program specification and refinement, more recently called a Practical Theory of Programming
Predicative_programming
Predicative expression
A secondary predicate is a (mostly adjectival) predicative expression that conveys information about the subject or the object but is not the main predicate
Secondary_predicate
Closed lexical category of the English language
him, someone gave him the ball, Mary was with him. When used as a predicative expression, i.e. as the complement of a form of the copula verb be, the subjective
Personal_pronouns_in_English
English pronoun
antecedent "(the) man" is the object of "saw". In the position of predicative expression (i.e. as the complement of forms of the copula be), the form who
Who_(pronoun)
Class of words
modifies the noun, "shortage." Adverbs can sometimes be used as predicative expressions; in English, this applies especially to adverbs of location: Your
Adverb
Type of clause in grammar
to suffer in silence. (infinitival clauses used as subject and predicative expression) I decided to bathe myself. (infinitival clause used as object)
Non-finite_clause
Verb adding grammatical meaning rather than content meaning
e.g., The bird is in the tree. – is serves as a copula with a predicative expression not containing any other verb. Definitions of auxiliary verbs are
Auxiliary_verb
Common past tense in French
the être auxiliary - the meaning (and construction) is that of a predicative expression in that case. Les filles sont venues. (The girls came / the girls
Passé_composé
Grammatical form
"To err is human" or "To know me is to love me." the object of a predicative expression: "What you should do is make a list" or "To know me is to love me"
Infinitive
Framework for the description of the structure of a language
book to Nikolai. A subject complement (variously called a predicative expression, predicative, predicate noun or adjective, or complement) appears in a
Traditional_grammar
Yuman language spoken in California and Arizona
function as subjects of verbs, adverbs, or, with vocative -a, as a predicative expression: šalʸʔáyc ʔamé·k "the sand is high," literally "sand it-is-high
Quechan_language
Lacking or omission of a "to be" verb, common in some languages and stylistic in others
(何これ?(これは何ですか?); what [is] this?). In Māori, the zero copula can be used in predicative expressions and with continuous verbs (many of which take a copulative verb
Zero_copula
Basis of generic programming
specialization. In the 1980s, Leivant introduced a stratified (i.e. predicative) version of Girard and Reynold's system F. Leivant's approach is based
Parametric_polymorphism
Non-finite verb form in Ancient Greek
any other noun: it can be subject, object (direct or indirect), predicative expression (rarely), or it may also serve as an apposition; it may have an
Infinitive_(Ancient_Greek)
Apparent contradiction in metamathematics
Systems I". The paradox was also a motivation for the development of predicative mathematics. The original statement of the paradox, due to Richard (1905)
Richard's_paradox
Language of Colombia, spoken by the Muisca
basic, derived or periphrastic. The periphrastic form, to form a predicative expression, uses the 3rd person + verbal root/name (+n) + ma-gue: (2) (Ms.
Muisca_language
Complex syntactic structure linking two or more elements
the coordinated strings are, as complements of the copula is, predicative expressions, and in the latter two sentences, the coordinated strings are adjuncts
Coordination_(linguistics)
Clauses in English grammar
Jim or before you did in the clause I arrived before you did; predicative expressions, such as red in The ball is red; or content or non-finite clauses
English_clause_syntax
Latin verb form that functions as an adjective
meaning of transitive verbs. The gerundive could be used as either a predicative or an attributive adjective. However, attributive use was rare, largely
Gerundive
Concept in linguistics
like call and name, which subcategorize for an object NP and a predicative expression; see (8b) verbs like wipe and pound, which allow the appearance
Small_clause
Topics referred to by the same term
structure composed of the predicative elements of a sentence vita patris, Latin for "during the life of the father" (e.g. in the expression "died v.p.") NCCC
VP_(disambiguation)
Personal pronoun to denote the interlocutor
semantically singular. You can appear as a subject, object, determiner or predicative complement. The reflexive form also appears as an adjunct. You occasionally
You
Sentence where two entities are equated with each other
the only use of this verb. Equative sentences can be contrasted with predicative sentences where one entity is identified as a member of a set, such as
Equative_sentence
Word or expression used to express an emotion or sentiment
An interjection is a word or expression that occurs as an utterance on its own and expresses a spontaneous feeling, situation or reaction. It is a diverse
Interjection
Linguistic modifier which enhances the word it modifies
was super cold. - Predicative intensifier b. a super cold day - Attributive intensifier Words such as so can occur only as predicative intensifiers, and
Intensifier
proposition that is not atomic. null-class A class containing no members predicative A century of scholarly discussion has not reached a definite consensus
Glossary of Principia Mathematica
Glossary_of_Principia_Mathematica
Concept in the philosophy of mathematics
on predicative arithmetic as bounded arithmetic theories like S12 are interpretable in Raphael Robinson's theory Q and therefore are predicative in Nelson's
Ultrafinitism
English grammatical process
Otjiherero, Chichewa, and a number of Germanic and Bantu languages. A predicative phrase is switched from its default postverbal position to a position
Subject–verb inversion in English
Subject–verb_inversion_in_English
3-volume treatise on mathematics, 1910–1913
difference between predicative and non-predicative functions, so they introduced the axiom of reducibility, saying that for every non-predicative function there
Principia_Mathematica
Adjective which excludes members of its noun's extension
alleged. (non-subsective, predicative) That is a fake nose. (privative, attributive) That nose is fake. (privative, predicative) That is a blue pig. (intersective
Privative_adjective
Expression in propositional calculus
Russell examined the problem of whether propositional functions were predicative or not, and he proposed two theories to try to get at this question:
Propositional_function
Christian term used in the Bible
θεοῦ ἐγώ εἰμι ..." ("Am I in place of God ...") Genesis 30:2, or with a predicative clause such as in "πάροικος καὶ παρεπίδημος ἐγώ εἰμι μεθ' ὑμῶν" ("As
I_am_(biblical_term)
Trans–New Guinea language cluster
Flamingo Bay Asmat, light verbs are combined with adjuncts to form predicative expressions. e- ‘do’ atow e- /play do/ ‘play’ caj e- /copulate do/ ‘copulate’
Asmat_languages
Alternative foundation of mathematics
versions, shown to be inconsistent by Girard's paradox, gave way to predicative versions. However, all versions keep the core design of constructive
Intuitionistic_type_theory
Canadian computer scientist (born 1947)
called predicative programming, later called Practical Theory of Programming, is to consider each specification to be a binary (boolean) expression, and
Eric_Hehner
Latin oratorical phrase
to the predicative verbal adjective delenda—and further imparts a deontic modality to the clause as a whole. Because delenda is a predicative adjective
Carthago_delenda_est
Cognitive process independent of the senses
ascribed to thinking and judging is that they are predicative experiences, in contrast to the pre-predicative experience found in immediate perception. On
Thought
Axiom in Russell's ramified theory of types
Russell defined predicative functions as those whose order is one more than the highest-order function occurring in the expression of the function. While
Axiom_of_reducibility
Adjective that occurs immediately after the noun or pronoun that it complements
leave soon exited"). In syntax, postpositive position is independent of predicative position; a postpositive adjective may occur either in the subject or
Postpositive_adjective
Word that does not add to the meaning of a sentence
3-11. ISBN 978-0195142259 Moro, Andrea. The Raising of Predicates: Predicative Noun Phrases and the Theory of Clause Structure. Cambridge University
Expletive_(linguistics)
Punctuation mark used to join words
cited dictionary, the hyphenation will be used in both attributive and predicative positions. For example, "A cost-effective method was used" and "The method
Hyphen
North Germanic language
like German and Dutch. This feature of predicative agreement is shared among the Scandinavian languages. Predicative adjectives do not inflect for definiteness
Norwegian_language
Extinct Eskimo–Aleut language
in the past “imna”. Suffix -/ɕuɣɨn/- meaning “to be similar to sth”: Predicative form of a noun can be built using suffix -/t͡ʃ ɨ/-: /imtuk/ (a toponym:
Sirenik_language
consisting of more than the original infinitive. They include objects, predicative nouns and adverbial information. These are packed before the original
German_verbs
Singular, neuter, third-person pronoun in English
interrogative what. It can appear as a subject, object, determiner or a predicative complement. The reflexive form also appears as an adjunct. It very seldom
It_(pronoun)
Phenomenon whereby language is used to discuss possible situations
For instance, a modal expression may convey that something is likely, desirable, or permissible. Quintessential modal expressions include modal auxiliaries
Modality_(semantics)
Words that indicate a question is being asked, as a grammatical category
Intransitive Labile Lexical Light Modal Negative Performative Phrasal Predicative Preterite-present Pure Reflexive Regular / Irregular Separable Stative
Interrogative_word
Type of determiner that indicates quantity
quantifiers. There exists no simple way of reformulating any one of these expressions as a conjunction or disjunction of sentences, each a simple predicate
Quantifier_(linguistics)
German philosopher, logician, and mathematician (1848–1925)
as second-order logic, can be weakened to so-called predicative second-order logic. Predicative second-order logic plus Basic Law V is provably consistent
Gottlob_Frege
Axiomatic set theories based on the principles of mathematical constructivism
defined using the expression R ( x , s ) {\displaystyle R(x,s)} , would play a role in its own characterization. While predicative Separation leads to
Constructive_set_theory
Rare permutation of word order
relating an adjective to a noun ("cold is Alaska") although cold is a predicative adjective, not an object. Rare examples of valid if idiomatic English
Object–verb–subject word order
Object–verb–subject_word_order
Pronoun having no referent
ISBN 9781032794730. Moro, Andrea (1997). The raising of predicates: predicative noun phrases and the theory of clause structure. Cambridge: Cambridge
Dummy_pronoun
System of mathematical set theory
Kripke and Richard Platek. The theory can be thought of as roughly the predicative part of Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory (ZFC) and is considerably weaker
Kripke–Platek_set_theory
French phenomenological philosopher (1908–1961)
within an ever-present world frame, through use of its pre-conscious, pre-predicative understanding of the world's makeup. The elaboration, however, is "inexhaustible"
Maurice_Merleau-Ponty
Part of speech
prototypically function at the clause level as subjects, objects, and predicative complements. These phrases are the only English phrases whose structure
English_nouns
Type of inflection whereby a word changes form depending on related words
Spanish, where articles, determiners and adjectives (both attributive and predicative) agree in number with the nouns they qualify: le grand homme ('the great
Agreement_(linguistics)
School of thought in philosophy of mathematics
seems to have considered that only predicative definitions can be allowed in mathematics: a definition is 'predicative' and logically admissible only if
Logicism
West Germanic language
they modify and after determiners. English adjectives also function as predicative complements (e.g. "the child is happy"). In Modern English, adjectives
English_language
List of interlinear glossing abbreviations
Creole: The Expression of Emotions István Kenesei, Robert Vago & Anna Fenyvesi (1998) Hungarian. Routledge. Leon Stassen (2009) Predicative Possession
List of glossing abbreviations
List_of_glossing_abbreviations
Noun whose quantity is treated as an undifferentiated unit
"cutlery" and "water" have cumulative reference, while the expression "a chair" does not. The expression "chairs", however, does, suggesting that the generalization
Mass_noun
Word or form that substitutes for another word
In linguistics, a pro-form is a type of function word or expression that stands in for (expresses the same content as) another word, phrase, clause or
Pro-form
Grammatical unit
of a nominative expression, the selection of a finite verb expression, and the ordering of the two such that the nominative expression precedes the finite
Tagmeme
Determiners in the English language
unlike prototypical adjectives, words in this category are not used predicatively, tend not to inflect for comparison, and tend not to be modified. In
English_determiners
Semantic feature of noun phrases in linguistics
variation in the expression of definiteness across languages, and some languages such as Japanese do not generally mark it, so the same expression can be definite
Definiteness
Western variety of the Romansh language
attributive and a predicative form in the masculine singular: in um vegl 'an old man' igl um ei vegls 'the man is old' The predicative masculine singular
Sursilvan
Ordinals in mathematics and set theory
make precise, it is the smallest (infinite) ordinal that cannot be ("predicatively") described using smaller ordinals. It measures the strength of such
Large_countable_ordinal
Linguistic sentence with null subject
A pro-sentence is a function word or expression that substitutes for a whole sentence whose content is recoverable from the context. A pro-sentence is
Pro-sentence
Austronesian language spoken in Indonesia
Adjectives following possessive (and therefore definite) nouns function as predicative, while adjectives following unmarked nouns function as attributive. Two
Balinese_language
Collection of Latin glosses on the Vulgate Bible
"potârniche"). In the Sursilvan dialect, masculine singular -s survives as a predicative ending in adjectives. E.g. il paun ei cars 'the bread is expensive' (Loporcaro
Reichenau_Glossary
Grammar of the Turkish language
noun; used predicatively, they follow, unless something other than word order shows that they are being used predicatively: Used predicatively, adjectives
Turkish_grammar
Proof in set theory
theories, the non-existence of a set of all sets also already follows from Predicative Separation. In a set theory, theories of mathematics are modeled. Weaker
Cantor's_diagonal_argument
of the expression and any subeventual structure it may have; with subevents; Qualia structure: a structural differentiation of the predicative force for
Generative_lexicon
Branch of mathematical logic
equiconsistent. ACA0 can be thought of as a framework of predicative mathematics, although there are predicatively provable theorems that are not provable in ACA0
Reverse_mathematics
Grammar of the Udmurt language
the adjective is always plural when it functions as the sentence's predicative: Nouns are ordinarily in the singular when following cardinal numbers
Udmurt_grammar
Grammar of the English language
example, drunken is attributive (a drunken sailor), while drunk is usually predicative (the sailor was drunk). Many adjectives have comparative and superlative
English_grammar
Arithmetic operation
Superexponentiation in 1987. It was used earlier by Ed Nelson in his book Predicative Arithmetic, Princeton University Press, 1986. The term hyperpower is
Tetration
Verb that has no determinate subject
as simply llueve. Temperature expressions ("it is hot"), weather expressions ("it is snowing"), and daylight expressions ("it is dark") tend to lack independent
Impersonal_verb
Grammatical case denoting accompaniment
case is a category of inflectional morphology. The comitative case is an expression of the comitative semantic relation through inflectional affixation, by
Comitative_case
Expression of time reference in grammar
("past-in-the-past") and "future-in-the-past". Expressions of tense are often closely connected with expressions of the category of aspect; sometimes what
Grammatical_tense
Songhay language of southwestern Niger
place, a price or a participle: A go fuwo ra ("She's in the house"). The predicative nô means "it is", "they are", etc. and is one of the most common words
Zarma_language
Indigenous language family of western Canada and the US
and 'verb' by arguing that, although any distinction is neutralised in predicative positions, words that can be categorised as 'verbs' are marked when used
Salishan_languages
Language of ancient Sumer and Babylon
it seems that the word 𒉡 nu "not" alone instead of *nu-um is used predicatively (e.g. 𒍏𒉡 urud nu "it is not copper") although the form 𒉡(𒌦)𒂵𒀀𒀭
Sumerian_language
Basic elements of language
a Salish language, all words with 'noun-like' meanings can be used predicatively, where they function like verb. For example, the word sbiaw can be understood
Word
Uralic language spoken in Russia
functions of Moksha cases are listed below: Nominative, used for subjects, predicatives and for other grammatical functions. Genitive, used to code possession
Moksha_language
PREDICATIVE EXPRESSION
PREDICATIVE EXPRESSION
Surname or Lastname
English
English : occupational name from Old French guyour ‘guide’ (see Guy 2).Americanized spelling of German Geyer.Swiss German : from a contraction of the expression gut Jahr (‘good year’) which as a greeting in rural Switzerland meant ‘I wish you a good harvest this year’.
Girl/Female
Tamil
Expressions
Girl/Female
Indian
Abinaya means expressions
Girl/Female
Tamil
Expression
Girl/Female
Tamil
Cheerful expression
Girl/Female
Tamil
Abinaya | அபீநாயாÂ
Abinaya means expressions
Abinaya | அபீநாயாÂ
Girl/Female
Indian
Cheerful expression
Surname or Lastname
English (Norfolk)
English (Norfolk) : from Middle English gode ‘good’ + body ‘person’, ‘creature’, apparently a nickname for a good person. Reaney, however, notes that the expression was used as a polite term of address, and the surname may therefore have arisen as a nickname for someone who habitually used this expression.
Girl/Female
Tamil
Its Hindi form is derived from a Sanskrit expression meaning star
Girl/Female
Indian
Face, Warm expression
Surname or Lastname
English
English : probably a nickname from Middle English gode ‘good’ (Old English gÅd) + year, yere ‘year’, bestowed on someone who frequently used the expression, perhaps in the sense ‘(as I hope to have a) good year’ or as a New Year salutation. Alternatively, it may have been from an Americanized form of French Gauthier.English translation of German Gutjahr, originally a nickname for someone born on New year’s Day.The inventor of vulcanized rubber, Charles Goodyear (1800–60) was of the fourth generation descended from Stephen Goodyear (1598–1658), who succeeded Gov. Theophilus Eaton as leader of the company of London merchants that founded the New Haven colony in CT in 1638.
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian, Tamil, Telugu
Initiation; Concentration; God's Name; Dedicative
Girl/Female
Sikh
Expression
Girl/Female
Indian
Expressions
Girl/Female
Tamil
Apinaya | அபிநாயா
Expressions in dance
Apinaya | அபிநாயா
Surname or Lastname
English, Scottish, Dutch, and German
English, Scottish, Dutch, and German : metonymic occupational name for a herring fisher or for a seller of the fish, Middle English hering, Dutch haring, Middle High German hærinc. In some cases it may have been a nickname in the sense of a trifle, something of little value, a meaning which is found in medieval phrases and proverbial expressions such as ‘to like neither herring nor barrel’, i.e. not to like something at all.German : habitational name from Herringen in Westphalia.Dutch : from a personal name, a derivative of a Germanic compound name with the first element hari, heri ‘army’.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant spelling of Hering.
Girl/Female
Indian
Expressions
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from the expression ‘God speed (you)’; a wish for success for one setting out on an enterprise, presumably applied as a nickname for someone who habitually used this expression.
Boy/Male
Indian
Expression
Surname or Lastname
English
English : presumably a nickname for an habitual user of the expression ‘Go well’ (Old English gÄn ‘go’ + wel ‘well’), or possibly a nickname for a messenger.
PREDICATIVE EXPRESSION
PREDICATIVE EXPRESSION
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian
Lamp
Girl/Female
American, Anglo, Arabic, Australian, British, Chinese, Christian, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Indian, Irish, Jamaican, Kannada, Latin, Sindhi, Swedish
Joy to the Father; Head of a Monastery; Father's Joy; Gives Joy; The Intelligent; Father of Exaltation; Father in Rejoicing; My Father Rejoices; My Father is Joy
Boy/Male
Tamil
Victorious
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian, Punjabi, Sikh
Friend; Bravely Upholding the Truth
Girl/Female
Indian
Shining Sun
Girl/Female
Indian
Honest
Girl/Female
American, Australian, Chinese, French, Irish
Champion
Boy/Male
Bengali, Indian
God
Boy/Male
Hindu
Male
English
Anglicized form of Irish Gaelic Cianán, KEENAN means "little ancient one."
PREDICATIVE EXPRESSION
PREDICATIVE EXPRESSION
PREDICATIVE EXPRESSION
PREDICATIVE EXPRESSION
PREDICATIVE EXPRESSION
n.
The act of predicating, or of affirming one thing of another; affirmation; assertion.
a.
Forming a judgment without due examination; prejudging.
v. i.
To affirm something of another thing; to make an affirmation.
n.
The word which unites the subject and predicate.
a.
Tending or serving to eradicate; curing or destroying thoroughly, as a disease or any evil.
a.
Predictive.
a.
Predicated.
a.
Predicating; affirming; declaring; proclaiming; hence; preaching.
a.
Foretelling; prophetic; foreboding.
v. t.
The word or words in a proposition which express what is affirmed of the subject.
a.
Joining subject and predicate; copulative.
v. t.
To found; to base.
a.
Medicinal; acting like a medicine.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Predicate
a.
Expressing affirmation or predication; affirming; predicating, as, a predicative term.
n.
A medicine that effects a radical cure.
v. t.
To assert to belong to something; to affirm (one thing of another); as, to predicate whiteness of snow.
imp. & p. p.
of Predicate
n.
Preaching.
v. t.
That which is affirmed or denied of the subject. In these propositions, "Paper is white," "Ink is not white," whiteness is the predicate affirmed of paper and denied of ink.