Predikat

Dalam tata bahasa, predikat (serapan dari ) adalah bagian kalimat yang menandai apa yang dikatakan oleh pembicara tentang subjek dan biasanya merupakan jawaban atas pertanyaan mengapa atau bagaimana. Pada beberapa bahasa, misalnya bahasa-bahasa dalam rumpun bahasa Indo-Eropa, predikat harus mengandung unsur verba. Predikat (tindakan) dapat diikuti antara lain oleh objek dan adverbia. Kata predikat berasal dari bahasa Latin praedicatum yang artinya ialah "apa yang sedang dibicarakan".

Bacaan lanjutan 

 
 
 
 The American Heritage College Dictionary, third edition. 1993 Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company.
 Bennet, P. 1995. A course in Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar. London: UCL Press Limited.
 
 
 
 Also distributed by Indiana University Linguistics Club and GLSA UMass/Amherst.
 Carnie, A. 2007. Syntax: A generative introduction, 2nd edition. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing.
 Cattell, R. 1984. Composite predicates in English. Syntax and Semantics 17. Sydney: Academic Press.
 Chomsky, N. 1965. Aspects of the theory of syntax. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
 Cowper, E. 1992. A concise introduction to syntactic theory: The government-binding approach. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
 Culicover, P. 1997. Principles and Parameters: An introduction to syntactic theory. Oxford University Press.
 Downing, A. and P. Locke. 1992. English grammar: A university course, second edition. London: Routledge.
 Fromkin, V. et al. 2013. Linguistics: An introduction to linguistic theory. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers.
 Haegeman, L. 1994. Introduction to government and binding theory, 2nd edition. Oxford, UK: Blackwell.
 Harrocks, G. 1987. Generative Grammar. London: Longman.
 Huddleston, R. 1988. English grammar: An outline. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
 Kroeger, P. 2005. Analyzing Grammar: An Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
 Langendoen, T. 1970. the study of syntax: The generative-transformational approach to the study of English. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc.
 Lockwood, D. 2002. Syntactic analysis and description: A constructional approach. London: continuum.
 Matthews, P. 1981. Syntax. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
 McCawley, T. 1988. The syntactic phenomena of English, Vol. 1. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
 The Merriam Webster Dictionary. 2004. Springfield, Massachusetts: Merriam-Webster.
 Napoli, D. 1989. Predication theory: A case study for indexing theory. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
 Napoli, D. 1993. Syntax: Theory and problems. New York: Oxford University Press.
 Osborne, T., M. Putnam, and T. Groß 2012. Catenae: Introducing a novel unit of syntactic analysis. Syntax 15, 4, 354-396.
 Oxford Concise dictionary of Linguistics. 1997. New York: Oxford University Press.
 Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar. 2014. New York: Oxford University Press.
 Parisi, D. and F. Antinucci. 1976. Essentials of grammar. Translated by E. Bates. New York: Academic Press.
 van Riemsdijk, H. and E. Williams. 1986. Introduction to the theory of grammar. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
 Thomas, L. 1993. Beginning syntax. Oxford, UK: Blackwell.

Tata bahasa
Kelas kata
Semantik