co-predication

A form of copredication — The simultaneous application of multiple predicates to a single argument, each selecting a distinct and normally incompatible facet of its meaning.

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Meanings

nounco-predication (countable and uncountable, plural co-predications)

plural co-predications

  1. alternativecountableuncountablehuman sciencesAlternative spelling of copredication.

    We can assume that acceptable examples of co-predication are evidence that a single structure is available, and thus that constructional polysemy is at work. However, we will argue that zeugma is not in general explicable on the basis of the existence of multiple distinct lexical structures.

    1995, Ann Copestake, Ted Briscoe, “Semi-productive Polysemy and Sense Extension”, in Journal of Semantics, volume 12, number 1, →DOI, page 49

Origin

From co- + predication.

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