Last week, we started discussing the differences between a phrase, clause and a sentence. We defined a phrase as a group of words without a subject and a predicate, though standing together to form a ...
ADVERTISEMENT What is the problem of predication? In a nutshell, it is this. Consider any simple subject-predicate sentence, such as (Davidson's favourite example), "Theaetetus sits". How are we to ...
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) ...
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