ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an explanation for the Property Predication Restriction, and a detailed analysis of the range of material that can follow the post-verbal NP in ES with natural results. The material in this chapter represents an attempt to account for a range of facts noted by Milsark as part of an explanation for the restricted range of material occurring after the NP in ES. The author introduces Carlson's distinction between different levels of entities, namely stages, objects, and kinds. Objects and kinds are both taken to be individuals. It is proposed that some predicates apply to stages of individuals while other predicates apply directly to individuals, that is, object- or kind-level entities. Specifically, a small clause with a PRO subject and a short predicate is only well-formed if the predicate is one that can be interpreted as applying to stages rather than individual-level entities.
