This paper argues for a system of c-selection which distinguishes selectors that project and those that do not by bifurcating selectional features into two types in the syntax: ones that license projection and ones that do not. I show that when categories are defined as base sets of features that mediate syntactic distribution, the apparent syntactic distinctiveness of v, V, and P in Malayalam dissolves because they share a distribution. This analysis predicts that predicates traditionally treated as adpositions in Malayalam cannot adjoin to nouns or adjectives, as true adpositions would, and also generates other kinds of structures, like light verb constructions.