Abstract This paper presents a unified outlook on the syntax of constructions featuring reflexive clitic se , with particular emphasis uniform morphosyntax Hungarian element -ik treated as an exponent both in verbal domain and nominal (in ordinal numeral constructions). The analysis is couched predication proposed Den Dikken (2006) represented subject reverse predication.

In these notes I set out quite briefly an interpretation of ‘predication‘ within the perspective offered by functional linguistics and, more particularly, within the framework known as systemic-functional, or socio-semiotic, linguistics (cf. Halliday, 1978, 1994). I will argue that the phenomena that have come to be grouped under the term predication can be given a reasonably concise and system...

Notions of predication based on extensional and intensional subsumption, as described by Woods, are related to Kahneman’s systems of thinking fast and slow. Path-based reasoning with links is applied to predication over not only individuals but (following Carlson) kinds and stages/time. Predications, fast and slow, are formulated in monadic secondorder logic over strings, analyzed in Goguen and...