Frompredicate +-ive.
- (UK, US)IPA(key): /ˈpɹɛ.dɪ.kə.tɪv/,/ˈpɹɛ.də.kə.tɪv/
predicative (notcomparable)
- (grammar, of anadjectival ornominal phrase) Modifying a noun from within apredicate.contrasts withattributive.
In the sentence, ‘This house is big’, ‘big’ ispredicative, whereas in ‘This is a big house’, it is attributive.
Compound adjectives are typically hyphenated in attributive position (for example, 'a high-quality scan is a must'), whereas inpredicative position, many house styles specify open styling (for example, 'this scan is high quality.'
predicative (pluralpredicatives)
- (grammar) An element of thepredicate of a sentence whichcomplements thesubject orobject by means of theverb. Predicatives may benominal oradjectival.
- (grammar) In some languages, a specialpart of speech used as apredicate and denoting a state of being.
1957, Morton Benson, “The Problem of Predicatives in Russian”, inThe Slavic and East European Journal, volume 1, number 4,→DOI,→ISSN,→JSTOR, page285:Apredicative in Russian is an uninflected word that regularly constitutes a complete utterance when standing alone, i.e., when preceded and followed by silence.
2013, Sergey Say, “On the Nature of Dative Arguments in Russian Constructions with “Predicatives””, in I. Kor Chahine, editor,Current Studies in Slavic Linguistics (Studies in Language Companion Series), page226:Traditional grammars usually differentiate between neuter short adjectives andpredicatives based on whether there is an overt nominative subject; henceкурение вредно ‘smoking (noun) is harmful’ is viewed as a clause with nominative subject, zero copula and neuter short form adjective that agrees with the subject in gender, whereasкурить вредно (same meaning, literally ‘to smoke is harmful’) is often viewed as an impersonal clause withpredicative.
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- He seemsnice. (adjectivalpredicative of the subject)
- Bob is apostman. (nominalpredicative of the subject)
- We painted the doorwhite. (adjectivalpredicative of the object)
- They elected himpresident. (nominalpredicative of the object)
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element of the predicate of a sentence which supplements the subject or object by means of the verb
a part of speech used as a predicate and denoting a state of being
predicative
- feminineplural ofpredicativo
