On Some Syntactico-Pragmatic Properties of Postnominal Prepositional Phrases
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With the introduction of X-Bar Theory by Jackendoff (1977), about a dozen claims appeared that were based on the argument/adjunct distinction of postnominal PPs (prepositional phrases). Among the best known of them are the following: Claim 1: Adjunct PPs can be stacked, but argument PPs cannot be. Claim 2: Argument PPs are always closer to their head noun than adjunct PPs. Claim 3: One-substitution cannot be applied to the N preceding the postnominal argument [PP of NP]. With the introduction of the Minimalist Program by Chomsky (1995), the above-mentioned structural distinction between argument and adjunct PPs disappeared, and so did the researchers' interest in examining various constraints on postnominal PPs. In this paper, I will attempt to show that there are many unsolved problems involving postnominal PPs that require an analytical approach that combines syntax and pragmatics. I will first show that none of the three claims mentioned above holds, and propose a syntactico-pragmatic analysis of the phenomena that these claims attempted to capture. The fact that Claims 1-3 do not hold does not mean that the distinction between argument and adjunct PPs is unnecessary. I will discuss a syntactic pattern involving postnominal PPs that is sensitive to the argument/adjunct distinction, and that has been inadequately analyzed in the framework of the Minimalist Program.
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With the introduction of X-Bar Theory by Jackendoff (1977), about a dozen claims appeared that were based on the argument/adjunct distinction of postnominal PPs (prepositional phrases). Among the best known of them are the following: Claim 1: Adjunct PPs can be stacked, but argument PPs cannot be. Claim 2: Argument PPs are always closer to their head noun than adjunct PPs. Claim 3: One-substitution cannot be applied to the N preceding the postnominal argument [PP of NP]. With the introduction of the Minimalist Program by Chomsky (1995), the above-mentioned structural distinction between argument and adjunct PPs disappeared, and so did the researchers' interest in examining various constraints on postnominal PPs. In this paper, I will attempt to show that there are many unsolved problems involving postnominal PPs that require an analytical approach that combines syntax and pragmatics. I will first show that none of the three claims mentioned above holds, and propose a syntactico-pragmatic analysis of the phenomena that these claims attempted to capture. The fact that Claims 1-3 do not hold does not mean that the distinction between argument and adjunct PPs is unnecessary. I will discuss a syntactic pattern involving postnominal PPs that is sensitive to the argument/adjunct distinction, and that has been inadequately analyzed in the framework of the Minimalist Program.
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