Happy is the main lexical predicate here. It takes one argument: an experiencer--John. Tall takes one argument: a theme: Mary. (12) *John is being tall. (13) *Mary is being fond of red roses. (14) ...

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 ...

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 ...

Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit invalidated CMS’s prohibition on appeals of so-called predicate facts. The appeal before the court, described in greater ...

A new formalism for predicate logic is introduced, with a non-standard method of binding variables, which allows a compositional formalization of certain anaphoric constructions, including 'donkey ...

The recent Supreme Court verdict clarifying various provisions of the PMLA "strengthens" the hands of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) as the agency can now attach assets and carry out raids even ...