This article demonstrates that abessive PPs impose the same type of definiteness restriction on their complements that existential predicates impose on their subjects. The definiteness effect (DE) in PPs is accounted for in the framework of the DE theory of Szabolcsi (1986a,b, 1992), who derives the DE from the incompatibility of a presuppositional subject and a logical predicate of existence that is present in a wide class of predicates (including verbs meaning ‘(cause to) come to exist in a particular fashion’ and nominal predicates meaning ‘(non)existence at a particular location’). The analysis points out this predicate of existence in the small clause complements of abessive Ps.

本文证明，强迫性宾语对其补语施加的确定性限制与存在谓词对其主语施加的确定性限制相同。PP 中的确定性效应 (DE) 在 Szabolcsi (1986a,b, 1992) 的 DE 理论框架中得到解释，他从预设主语与存在于广泛的谓词类别（包括表示“（导致）以特定方式存在”的动词和表示“在特定位置（不）存在”的名词谓词）。分析指出了主格Ps小句补语中存在的谓语。