Complements of preposition phrases
Prepositions can take the following categories as their complement:
- an
NP
unmarked for function - a
CP
- an
ADVP-LOC
Pronominal adverbs
Note that pronominal adverbs (e.g. darumme) are treated as PP
s:
(PP (ADVP (PAVKO Dar)) (PAVAP vmme) )
Pronominal adverbs can also be discontinuous:
-
The d-element projects an
ADVP
which is treated as having been fronted out of thePP
-
The d-element is traced into the PP as the complement of the head preposition (
PAVAP
)
(IP-MAT (ADVP-1 (PAVD Daer)) (NP-OB2 (PPER vns)) (VAFIN is) (PP (ADVP *ICH*-1) (PAVAP van)) (VVPP ghecomen) (NP-SBJ (ADJA manich) (leet)) )
Double prepositions
MLG has a range of `double prepositions’:
- bet an
- bet uppe
- van an
- wente an
- wente to
- wente uppe
In such cases, both prepositions are tagged APPR
, are immediately dominated by the PP
and are sisters to each other and the NP
complement:
(PP (APPR wente) (APPR an) (NP (NP-POS (NA godes) (NA ghebort))) )
Co-occuring prepositions and adpositions
(PP (APPR bet) (ADVP (AVD bauen)) (APPO an) )