We propose a generalization of first-order logic originating in a neglected work by C.C. Chang: a natural and generic correspondence language for any types of structures which can be recast as Set-coalgebras. We discuss axiomatization and completeness results for several natural classes of such logics. Moreover, we show that an entirely general completeness result is not possible. We study the expressive power of our language, both in comparison with coalgebraic hybrid logics and with existing first-order proposals for special classes of Set-coalgebras (apart from relational structures, also neighbourhood frames and topological spaces). Basic model-theoretic constructions and results, in particular ultraproducts, obtain for the two classes that allow completeness---and in some cases beyond that. Finally, we discuss a basic sequent system, for which we establish a syntactic cut-elimination result.

@article{paperbot419,
  title = {Model Theory and Proof Theory of Coalgebraic Predicate Logic},
  author = {Tadeusz Litak and Dirk Pattinson and Katsuhiko Sano and Lutz Schröder},
  journal = {Logical Methods in Computer Science},
  volume = {Volume 14, Issue 1},
  year = {2018},
  doi = {10.23638/lmcs-14(1:22)2018}
}