DefinitionPredictable information is given information that the speaker assumes can be or could have been predicted by the addressee to occur in a particular position in the sentence.ExamplesEllipsed material in utterances is predictable information. See alsoSpeaker Addressee Sentence Utterance Sources 1Prince 1981, 226, 232Explore the bibliography ← PREVIOUS ENTRYPredicatorNEXT ENTRY →Predictive Future Tense