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predicational

predicational adjective: relating to predicates or predications.

Adjective

predicational (not comparable)

  1. Relating to predicates or predications.
    • Predicational language allows the child or learner to talk about events located outside of the here and now, about feelings, and about abstract, hypothetical, or imagined arguments and states of affairs.2002, Claire J. Kramsch, Language Acquisition and Language Socialization, page 156

Origin of predicational

From predication + -al.

Questions about predicational

What does predicational mean?
Predicational means relating to predicates or predications.
What part of speech is predicational?
Predicational is an adjective.

Words near predicational in the dictionary

  1. predicates
  2. predicatid
  3. predicatids
  4. predicating
  5. predication
  6. predicational
  7. predications
  8. predicatival
  9. predicative
  10. predicative adjective
  11. predicative adjectives

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