ABSTRACT
Intermsofitwecandefinewhatacomplexis.Asarule
ofthumb,thedenotationofanybasicEnglishpredicate
(exceptforverygeneralonessuchasthing)willbea NPr.ButmembersofNPrarenottoberegardedas
'simplex'inanymetaphysicalsenseandvariousinter-
possibletodefinethenotionofur-complexasfollows:
Soanur-complexisgoingtohaveaproperty(orits negation)asitsfirstconstituent,andn-individualsas itsotherconstituents.Thisprovidesuswithasimple
e-rolecaninsteadbeconstruedasapartialfunctionfrom
marized as follows:
(52) a.
