Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
predicative
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Existence claims, after all, involve certain claims about concepts, and concepts are represented by predicative expressions.
▪ In a sentential context, they are represented by syntactically incomplete predicative expressions.
▪ It should be noted that the same is true of ordinary predicative adjectives - further evidence of their special similarity.
▪ Parallel to the division of adjunct, we may divide sub-clauses into attributive clauses, predicative clauses and adverbial clauses.
▪ The exclusion of associative adjectives from predicative position is an automatic result.
▪ The structure will therefore match exactly what is achieved by the use of ordinary predicative position.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Predicative
Predicative \Pred"i*ca*tive\, a. [L. praedicativus.] Expressing affirmation or predication; affirming; predicating, as, a predicative term. -- Pred"i*ca*tive*ly, adv.
Wiktionary
predicative
(context grammar of an adjectival or nominal English) Used after a verb, as a predicate; (non-gloss definition: contrasted with attributive.) n. (context grammar English) An element of the predicate of a sentence which supplements the subject or object by means of the ver
Predicatives may be nominal or adjectival.
WordNet
predicative
adj. of adjectives; relating to or occurring within the predicate of a sentence; "`red' is a predicative adjective in `the apple is red'" [ant: attributive]
Wikipedia
Predicative
Predicative may mean:
- Predicative expression
- Predicative verb
- Lacking impredicativity (Mathematical logic)