Assertion: linguist's object | /r/CapableOf | denote a second-order property
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text: The lambda-abstractions in the VP′-rule can be understood as ensuring that the object NP, which like any NP denotes a second-order property, is correctly applied to an ordinary property (that of being the love-object of a certain x), and the result is a predicate with respect to the (still open) subject position.