different between predictand vs predicand

English

predictand (plural predictands)

predicand (plural predicands)

(semantics) What a predicative complement or adjunct relates to (usually the subject of a clause).
In, "downhearted, he left," the predicand for downhearted is the person denoted by he (i.e. he was downhearted).

Huddleston & Pullum. (2002). The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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