Another exception to the general rule that adpositions do not take adpositional complements is the preposition voor'for' in its function of expressing an intended goal. First consider the examples in (40), in which the complement of voor is the person for which the biscuits are intended.

The examples in (41) show that the intended goal need not be an animate entity but can also refer to a certain occasion.

The examples in (42) show that the occasion in question need not be referred to directly, but can also be referred to indirectly by means of an element that denotes a time, as in the (a)-examples, or a location, as in the (b)-examples.

Given the fact that times and locations are typically expressed by means of a prepositional phrase, it does not really come as a surprise that the occasion in question can also be referred to by means of a PP. In (43a), an example is given that involves the temporal PP na het eten 'after dinner' . That we are really dealing with a PP-complement, and not with a compound voorna , is clear from the fact illustrated in (43b) that, after R-extraction, the R-pronoun intervenes between voor and the temporal preposition na , and cannot precede the preposition voor ; cf. Section 1.2.1, sub II.

In (44), we give comparable examples involving the locational PP in de duinen'in the dunes'. Unfortunately, however, R-pronominalization is completely blocked in this case. The main argument for claiming that we are not dealing with the complex preposition voorin is that the PP can be replaced by a locational pro-form; this was shown earlier in the (b)-examples in (42).

Example (45a), finally, is an example, in which the goal is an object that is in the process of being manufactured; it expresses that the eggs are ingredients intended for the pancakes. The example in (45b) shows, again, that the PP must be considered a complement of voor, that is, that voorin is not a complex preposition in (45).