ABSTRACT
The predicative use of adjectives implies a set-subset relation: if an adjective A is predicated of a certain noun phrase, then the set of entities referred to by the noun phrase is a subset of the set denoted by A; cf. Section 23.3.2.1. The prototypical instantiation of this type of predication is found in the copular construction: an example such as (1) expresses that the set of entities referred to by the noun phrase de jongens ‘the boys’ is a subset of the set denoted by the adjective rijk ‘rich’.
