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Denominal verbs in Tatar exhibit two puzzling characteristics: first, syntactically identical configurations involve different ways of morphological derivation, secondly, the only detectable difference has to do with the semantic type of relation between the activity and change of state. I argue that the puzzle can be solved by assuming a radical predicate decomposition approach to event structure whereby syntactic heads that introduce subevents are kept apart from a head that denotes a relation between them. The analysis I propose consists of the following four ingredients