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2. Predicate (grammar) - Wikipedia

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   Predicate (grammar) The term predicate is used in two ways in linguistics and its subfields. The first defines a predicate as everything in a standard declarative sentence except the subject, and the other defines it as only the main content verb or associated predicative expression of a clause. Thus, by the first definition, the predicate of ...

3. Predicative expression - Wikipedia

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   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.g. be, seem, appear, or that appears as a second complement of a certain type of verb, e.g. call, make, name, etc. [ 1] The most frequently acknowledged types of ...

4. Nominal sentence - Wikipedia

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   Nominal sentence. In linguistics, a nominal sentence (also known as equational sentence) [ 1] is a sentence without a finite verb. [ 2] As a nominal sentence does not have a verbal predicate, it may contain a nominal predicate, an adjectival predicate, in Semitic languages also an adverbial predicate or even a prepositional predicate.

5. Argument (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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   In linguistics, an argument is an expression that helps complete the meaning of a predicate, [ 1] the latter referring in this context to a main verb and its auxiliaries. In this regard, the complement is a closely related concept. Most predicates take one, two, or three arguments. A predicate and its arguments form a predicate-argument structure.

6. Clause - Wikipedia

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   Clause. In language, a clause is a constituent or phrase that comprises a semantic predicand (expressed or not) and a semantic predicate. [ 1] A typical clause consists of a subject and a syntactic predicate, [ 2] the latter typically a verb phrase composed of a verb with or without any objects and other modifiers.

7. Predicand - Wikipedia

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   In the most typical cases, the predicand corresponds to the subject of a clause, and the predicate corresponds to a verb phrase (VP) that is the head of the clause. But there are also form-meaning mismatches, where the predicand is not a subject or where the predicate is not the head of the clause. Also, not every utterance has a predicand.

8. Copula (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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   In linguistics, a copula /‘kɑpjələ/ ( pl.: copulas or copulae; abbreviated cop) is a word or phrase that links the subject of a sentence to a subject complement, such as the word is in the sentence "The sky is blue" or the phrase was not being in the sentence "It was not being cooperative." The word copula derives from the Latin noun for a ...

9. Valency (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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   Transitivity and valency. In linguistics, valency or valence is the number and type of arguments and complements controlled by a predicate, content verbs being typical predicates. Valency is related, though not identical, to subcategorization and transitivity, which count only object arguments – valency counts all arguments, including the ...