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Predicative may refer to:
Something having the properties of a grammatical predicate
Predicative expression, part of a clause that typically follows a copula (linking verb)
Predicative verb, a verb that behaves as a grammatical adjective
In mathematics and logic something without impredicativity, without a self-referencing definition
Predicative programming, a methodology for program specification and refinement
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up predicative in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Predicative may refer to: Something having the properties of a grammatical predicate Predicative expression...
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...
some examples: That's a funny idea. (attributive) That idea is funny. (predicative) Tell me something funny. (postpositive) The good, the bad, and the funny...
Predicative programming is the original name of a formal method for program specification and refinement, more recently called a Practical Theory of Programming...
A predicative verb is a verb that behaves as a grammatical adjective; that is, it predicates (qualifies or informs about the properties of its argument)...
introducing ad hoc aspects. One example is C++ template specialization. In a predicative type system (also known as a prenex polymorphic system), type variables...
are functioning just like other predicative expressions, e.g. predicative adjectives (That was good) and predicative nominals (That was the truth). They...
means to be predicative or impredicative. Authors have given different but related definitions. The opposite of impredicativity is predicativity, which essentially...
In traditional grammar, a subject complement is a predicative expression that follows a copula (commonly known as a linking verb), which complements the...
dependents), adjective phrases function at the clause level as predicative complements and predicative adjuncts. At the phrase level, adjective phrases function...
attributively or predicatively. An attributive adjective (phrase) precedes the noun of a noun phrase (e.g. a very happy man). A predicative adjective (phrase)...
like German and Dutch. This feature of predicative agreement is shared among the Scandinavian languages. Predicative adjectives do not inflect for definiteness...
rendered, "must be destroyed". The gerundive delenda functions as a predicative adjective in this construction, which is known as the passive periphrastic...
difference between predicative and non-predicative functions, so they introduced the axiom of reducibility, saying that for every non-predicative function there...
they modify and after determiners. English adjectives also function as predicative complements (e.g., the child is happy). In Modern English, adjectives...
phrase type. Noun phrases often function as verb subjects and objects, as predicative expressions, and as complements of prepositions. One NP can be embedded...
the subject of a verb, or (in Latin and formal variants of English) a predicative nominal or adjective, as opposed to its object, or other verb arguments...
In axiomatic set theory, the axiom schema of predicative separation, or of restricted, or Δ0 separation, is a schema of axioms which is a restriction...
consisting of more than the original infinitive. They include objects, predicative nouns and adverbial information. These are packed before the original...
alleged. (non-subsective, predicative) That is a fake nose. (privative, attributive) That nose is fake. (privative, predicative) That is a blue pig. (intersective...
[citation needed] We can appear as a subject, object, determiner or predicative complement. The reflexive form also appears as an adjunct. Subject: We're...
Sociocultural Grounds for Self-Consciousness, MIT Press/Bradford Books 2010 Predicative Minds: The Social Ontogeny of Propositional Thinking, MIT Press/Bradford...
languages, predicative adjectives and copular complements receive a form of person agreement that is distinct from that used on ordinary predicative verbs...