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The author considers Complex Predicates (CPs) as a type of collocation formed by the combination of the structure \(V+N\) used in a non-idiomatic meaning and restricted in commutability not only by grammatical and semantic valence but also by usage. The aim of the paper is to investigate CPs as paradigmatic, transfer, and syntagmatic relations within a machine translation approach. The paper provides an interlingual representation devoted to solve (1) the paraphrasis and structural transfer mismatches, and (2) the lexical selection. There are described the cross-linguistic validation of lexical semantic representations applied to natural language realizations of the Italian predicative forms mettere, prendere, and dare, in their combinations with nouns and to their equivalent realizations in English and Spanish. The author applied Jackendoff's Conceptual Structures (CSs) to relate CPs and lexicalized forms within a multilingual approach. The interlingual formalism used to represent cooccurrence restrictions is Mel'cuk Lexical Functions (LFs). LFs are proved to be suitable for codifying the lexical selection, to formalizing deep syntactic actants, and to be definable on the same bases as CSs. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0912.00026].