The Category P Features, Projections, Interpretation

Finally, the ability of Hebrew Locative PPs to combine with a phonetically null
T(ense) and form clausal modifiers (22), is shown to follow from their unique status
as independent predicates:
(22) a. ha-sefer [ CP še- [ TP T [ PP al ha-madaf]]]…
the-book that- on the-shelf…
Compare: b. *ha-sefer še-al ha-xalal…
the-book that-about the-space…
In chapter 5 a close examination of P pred is undertaken in object gap
constructions, especially in the Tough Construction (23) and the Object Purpose
Clause construction (24):
(23) ha-sefer kal li-kri’a
the book easy to-reading
The book is easy to read.
(24) dan hevi et ha-oto le-tikun
Dan brought Acc the-car to-repairing
Dan brought the car to repair.
In these constructions in Hebrew, the P-morpheme le- (‘to’) introduces nominal
(rather than verbal) predicative phrases. Based on the properties of the sequence ‘lenominal’,
le- in these constructions is analyzed as a lexical affix (i.e. affixal P pred ). Its
attachment to an event-denoting N results in a nominal element with an externalized
theta-role (i.e. an external argument slot, as posited for prepositions like about, under,
or adjectives like nice), projecting an NP (rather than a PP, or a DP). Extending the
proposal to English, I argue that to in English object gap constructions is a syntactic
P pred (i.e. it is not T). On a par with le- in Hebrew, to externalizes the internal role of
its complement (which is verbal), creating a predicative phrase (PP) with an external
argument slot.
In the Object Purpose Clause construction, this predicative phrase (NP in
Hebrew, PP in English) is analyzed as a secondary predicate of the internal argument