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35.0. Introduction
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This chapter deals with the syntactic uses of adpositional phrases listed in Table 1. For all these syntactic uses we will investigate at least the following four syntactic properties: the possibility of topicalization, °A'-scrambling, PP-over-V, and R-extraction.

Table 1: The syntactic use of the adpositional phrase
argument § 35.1
predicative complementive spatial locational § 35.2.1.1
directional
non-spatial § 35.2.1.2
supplementive § 35.2.2
attributive § 35.3
adverbial § 35.4

There is much more to say about the syntactic distribution of PPs in verbal, nominal, and adjectival constructions; this is covered in the chapters on complementation of these categories; cf. Sections V2, N15.2, and A24.1.

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