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English
Noun
predicand (plural predicands)
- (syntax) What a clausal predicate, predicative complement or adjunct relates to.
- In, "downhearted, he left," the predicand for downhearted is the person denoted by he (i.e. he was downhearted).
- (semantics) The referent of the phrase of which another constituent (the predicate) is predicated.
- For example, in They appear uneasy, the property of being uneasy is predicated of (the referent of) they, which is therefore the predicand.
References
- Huddleston & Pullum. (2002). The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 217.
- “predicand”, in Aarts, Chalker & Weiner. (2014). The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar, 2nd ed. Oxford University Press, →ISBN. p. 317.