👉 In the context of linguistics and semantics, "prepotency" refers to a linguistic property that is determined by the previous words or phrases used in an utterance. It is a characteristic of language that is subject to change based on the preceding words or phrases. For example, if I say "I'm going to buy some groceries," then the next word in my sentence could be "I went." The prepotency of this sentence would depend on whether I had gone before or not.
