... contrast, nouns and adjectives need help from 1.4 Goals, methods, and outline of the current work 21 a functional category Pred in order to this This is the indirect cause of predicative nouns and adjectives ... projections (section 2. 7) It also accounts for the fact that certain verbs behave like unaccusative predicates, in contrast to corresponding adjectives and nouns, which 23 24 Verbs as licensers ... claims that this property subdivides the lexical categories too Those lexical categories that take a specifier are verbs; those that not are nouns and adjectives The way a verb comes to have a...