Type-shifting and Scrambled Definites

We show that the diierence between indeenites and deenites with respect to their syntactic behaviour, in particular scrambling, follows from a diierence in their semantics. In general, deenites can be viewed as a special type of indeenites: they are restricted indeenites in all semantic types. This inherent restriction of deenites makes them insensitive to processes of semantic incorporation. That is, merging an incorporating verb and a predicative deenite is equivalent to merging an ordinary type of transitive verb and an ordinary type of deenite. This will explain the phenomenon of optional scrambling for deenites. Predicative indeenites are dependent on the verb for their interpretation, of which the adjacency requirement between the incorporating verb and the predicative indeenite is only a syntactic reeex.