A few years ago the breezer was introduced in the Dutch markets. A breezer contains a considerable amount of pure alcohol. Among young people it became the rage to drink a few breezers during a party or in a pub.

As we see from the examples in (55): (55) (a) John will put [_(NP) the car] _(PP) in the garage (b) ^✽John will put _(NP) the car (c) ^✽John will put _(PP) in the garage (d) ^✽John will put the Verb put subcategorizes (i.e. ‘takesʼ) obligatory NP and PP complements (to simplify exposition here, we ignore the fact that the subcategorization properties of put may be predictable from its thematic properties, and from general word-order principles such as the STRICT ADJACENCY CONDITION).

All those empire-waist gowns and tops that looked so stylish not so long ago suddenly have turned into the fashion equivalent of pumpkins, morphing from au courant to out-of-date as quickly as the New Year's clocks chimed 12.

In contrast to bonds of kaḅisu membership, which require ritual maintenance and can produce intense factional rivalries, and those of affines, which demand ongoing exchanges, unmediated relations of blood are created by nothing more than physical procreation. […] People's ability to swivel between these two rhetorical possibilities reflects the inherent tension that lies between affines, who are both others and extensions of oneself.