The process of modification involves a modifier predicating itself of exactly the same event that the verb is predicated of.
Predicating some predicate of a thing can be done in both asserted and unasserted contexts.
She compares the three word classes in functional terms and assigns verbs a predicating and nouns a referent-introducing function.
The t unvoices the possessive s and makes its sound less like a warm, fuzzy syntax word, and more like a predicating wannabe.
A scrutiny of the so-called objects we coded in the syntax factor group suggests that many, if not most, have a predicating function.
Necessity, by contrast, is not merely a meta-attribute but also a mode of predication, since necessity can be seen to govern the very act of predicating attributes of a subject.
Compare, for example, the sign 'fall ' when referring to an animate referent and the same concept when predicating over an inanimate referent.
He is predicating certain things about the middle or central area.
