predicational
English
editEtymology
editFrom predication + -al.
Adjective
editpredicational (not comparable)
- 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.