Predicative complements canonically show number and/or gender agreement with their target. The most detailed proposal on how to model it in HPSG is in Kathol (1999). This proposal, though, mainly deals with the predicative adjectives of the Romance languages, and turns out to be rather inappropriate for dealing with predicate nominals. There is an obvious way to repair it, but it cannot be fitt...

In this paper, we address the problem of how people understand predicative metaphors such as “The rumor flew through the office,” and argue that predicative metaphors are understood as indirect categorizations. In the indirect categorization process, the verb (e.g., fly) of a predicative metaphor evokes an intermediate entity, which in turn evokes a metaphoric category of actions or states (e.g...

This paper considers theories of bounded arithmetic which are predicative in the sense of Nelson, that is, theories which are interpretable in Robinson’s Q . We give a nearly exact characterization of functions which can be total in predicative bounded theories. As an upper bound, any such function has polynomial growth rate and its bit-graph is in nondeterministic exponential time and in co-no...

The paper proposes a novel classification and analysis of the V-DE construction in Mandarin Chinese. On this proposal, the V-DE construction is divided into two types, predicative and non-predicative. The predicative type can be further divided into entity-predicative V-DE constructions and eventuality-predicative V-DE constructions. With respect to the analysis of the V-DE construction, the pa...