Recent lexicalist analyses of predicates expressed by syntactically independent elements, raise central questions concerning the domain in which such complex predicates are composed. Should they be ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The article deals with the dynamic, retroactive effects within a clause derivation of various 'downstream' specifications (that is, at ...

A non-technical friend of mine once asked me to explain, in layman's language, the legal term "laying the predicate". It was very difficult. After so much effort he was apparently satisfied when I ...