predicationaladj.
/ˌprɛdᵻˈkeɪʃn̩(ə)l/, /ˌprɛdᵻˈkeɪʃən(ə)l/, U.S. /ˌprɛdəˈkeɪʃ(ə)nəl/ Logic and Grammar.
Of, relating to, or involving predication.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical proposition > [adjective] > affirmative
affirmative1532
affirmant1574
assertorya1856
assertorial1863
assertorical1870
assertoric1889
predicational1894
the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical proposition > term of a proposition > [adjective] > of or relating to predication
predicamentalc1600
predicational1894
the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > syntax or word order > syntactic unit or constituent > [adjective] > relating to a predicate
predicative1846
predicatival1891
predicational1894
1894 J. Venn Symbolic Logic (ed. 2) ii. 59 It..concluded, in the predicational form,—using ‘is’ instead of ‘is identical with’.
1921 W. E. Johnson Logic I. xiv. 237 Giving added significance to the predicational factor by bringing out the relation of an adjective to its determinable.
1953 K. Britton J. S. Mill vi. 194 I say ‘This snow is white’... The predicational form of sentence indicates this connexion [between whiteness and the other qualities of snow]: whereas ‘There is snow and noise’ does not—it is not asserted that the snow is noisy.
1978 Language 54 90 Quantification is often predicational (i.e. with adjectives) in Japanese.
2000 A. M. Devine & L. D. Stephens Discontinuous Syntax ii. 73 This is..an inverted predicational sentence (‘The shirts that got sold were the red ones’).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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