Predicate adjectives may be marked for relevance. In the first set of sentences the present tense is the point of relevance: (29) John's been tall for several years. (30) Mary has been fond of jewelry ...

First, if you're not going to use a predicate anywhere else, you can pass your predicate as a lambda expression and use a local variable within the expression. Using a lambda expression in the example ...

IN NATURE for March 23, p. 78, in a review of De Morgan's “Budget of Paradoxes,” re-issued by the Open Court Publishing Co., there is an allusion to Sir William Hamilton's “famous theory of ...

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 ...