Terminological note. A RAISEE is a complement that is not assigned a semantic role by its head. English examples: "He is likely to come" = "It is likely that he will come": "he" is not an argument of "likely". "She seems to have gone" = "It seems that she has gone": "she" is not an argument of "seems". "She believes him to be mad" = "She believes that he is mad": "him" is not an argument of "believes".When an argument of word W is BOUND BY THE NEAREST RAISEE, this means it is bound by the Raisee complement of the superordinate word that is hierarchically nearest to W and that has a Raisee complement. I.e. binding is by the Raisee sister/aunt/greataunt/greatgreat aunt that is as few 'generations' removed as possible. To find the nearest Raisee, then, you climb up the tree until you find a word with a Raisee complement; that complement is the nearest Raisee. To find the second nearest Raisee, you climb up again till you find the next word with a Raisee complement; and so forth.