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predicational

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English

Etymology

From predication + -al.

Adjective

predicational (not comparable)

  1. Relating to predicates or predications.
    • 2002, Claire J. Kramsch, Language Acquisition and Language Socialization, page 156:
      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.
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