This paper addresses the question ofwhattypes ofevents canbe construed

together to form a single semantic predication.1. By a “single semantic

predication,” I intend a unitary grammatical expression ofan action,state

or combination thereof applied to a single argument. Three different cases

are discussed: subevents evoked by'a single verb, events evoked by the

combination of a verb’s lexical semantics and the semantics ofa clause-level _

construction, and finally, the events designated by conjuncts in principled.

violations of the coordinate structure constraint. It isargued that eachof.

these three types of predications showsastrikingly similar set ofpossible |

relations and thus leads us toward a general theory ofcognitively plausible

predication structures.