1871 J. Hadley (new ed.) 219 Some adjectives of place, used in the predicate position, refer to a part of the subject.
1955 A. N. Prior ii. iii. 160 The Schoolmen also very freely substitute singular terms for general ones, in the predicate- as well as the subject-position.
2003 9 41 Semantic uniformity demands that we take predicates to designate properties when they occupy the predicate position in a sentence.