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predicator
has definitions from the fields of grammar,linguistics
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[ noun ] (grammar,linguistics) an expression that predicates
Used in print (Ralph B. Long. The Sentence and Its Parts: A...)From the point_of_view of syntactic analysis the head word in the statement is the predicator has broken , and from the point_of_view of meaning it would seem that the trouble centers in the breaking ; but dominant stress will be assigned to broken only in rather exceptional versions of the sentence . In I know one thing dominant stress will usually be on the complement one thing ; in one thing I know it will usually be on the predicator know . Related terms |
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