单词 | predicatival |
释义 | predicativaladj.n. Grammar. Of or forming a predicate. Also as n. Cf. predicative adj. and n. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > syntax or word order > syntactic unit or constituent > [adjective] > relating to a predicate predicative1846 predicatival1891 predicational1894 1891 H. A. Strong et al. Introd. Study Hist. Lang. xvii. 290 A similar vacillation occurs in cases of the predicatival noun or predicatival attribute. 1937 A. H. Gardiner in Mélanges de Linguistique et de Philologie offerts à J. van Ginneken 310 Predicatival examples are not very frequent, e.g. She is very Boston, Surely that knock (i.e. at the front door) is John. 1958 A. A. Hill Introd. Ling. Struct. xvi. 274 A verb consisting of an -ing form..will be defined as a predicatival rather than as a predicator. 1967 Language 43 823 The same creole has produced..lāvi ‘desire’ from predicatival fē ‘(be) hungry’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1891 |
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