substituend

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin substituendus; compare substituendum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌsʌbˈstɪt͡ʃuənd/, /ˌsʌbˈstɪtjuənd/

Noun

substituend (plural substituends)

1. (logic, linguistics) A substitute; something that substitutes for another.
   • 1972, John King-Farlow, W.N. Christensen, “Probability and the 'Will to Believe'”, in Logic, Identity, and Consistency‎^[1], D. Reidel, →ISBN, page 177:

     Each substituend SN, it seems, would amount to the same thing as its corresponding UN in SOME not very strained context.

   • 1998, Pranab Kumar Sen, Logic, Identity, and Consistency (Studies in Philosophical and Non-Standard Logic; II)‎^[2], Allied Publishers, →ISBN, page 134:

     Note that a variable is a substituend of a variable only in a vacuous sense , and so we shall be ignoring them while speaking of the substituends of a given variable.

   • 2006 March 13, Lutz Martin, “Relative Clause Construal”, in The Dynamics of Language‎^[3], Brill, →ISBN, page 85:

     The pragmatic process of substitution requires some given context to provide an appropriate substituend for a metavariable projected by a pronoun.

2. (linguistics) A substituendum; something to be substituted or replaced.
   • 1989 [c. 450 BCE], Pāṇini, translated by Sumitra M. Katre, Aṣṭādhyāyī‎^[4], page 22:

     […] but since the substitute y is not treated like the substituend vowel, the option will not prevail.

   • 1994, Pieter C. Verhagen, “Structure and Method”, in A History of Sanskrit Grammatical Literature in Tibet‎^[5], volume II, Brill, page 227:

     The substituend item bhis is one of the twenty-one case suffixes (sUP or vibhakti) introduced as a set in Pāṇ. 4.1.2.

   • 2012 December 6 [1979], Johannes Bronkhorst, Tradition and Argument in Classical Indian Linguistics‎^[6], Springer Netherlands, →ISBN, page 98:

     But those (same) meanings belong to the substitutes because of the rule accepted in the Bhāṣya that only that is a substitute which is capable of expressing the meaning of the substituend.