1958 24 45/1 The utterance follows what I regard as the basic word-order, the subject..being inserted between the predicate centre..and the goal of the action.
1966 R. A. Hall vi. 84 In the predicates of most pidgins and creoles, we find..virtually any type of free form of phrase, without any verb. Here are a few examples of nouns, pronouns, and adjectives as predicate-centers.