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 ...
Linguistics and Philosophy, Vol. 26, No. 5 (Oct., 2003), pp. 595-635 (41 pages) Ryle (1949, Chapter V) discusses a range of predicates which in different ways exemplify a property I shall call ...
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