Abstract
The paper takes a class of logical/semantic operators, which share the property of being higher predicates, and shows that they also share a number of syntactic properties. On the basis of these syntactic properties it is suggested that we should reexamine the syntax of these operators and investigate whether they are also syntactic predicates. All the proposals in the paper are advanced as part of the common core of human languages. None is specific to Greek (Gr)2, which is the main language of exposition. For the crosslinguistic validity of the proposals to become apparent the reader should take into consideration not only the Greek data but also their English translations. This is not directly possible in two cases, i.e Polarity Item Licensing and Root Infinitives, where English data are provided separately.
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