영어의 복합 장소전치사구에 대한 핵계층구조적 접근

Abstract

This paper is an exploration of the internal structure of the complex locational PP in English. Reviewing its standard analysis provided in Radford (1988), it points out a problem with the analysis. In section two,then, it reviews Baker's (1989) observation of major properties of the complex locational PP and his quite descriptive phrase-structure rules to account for them, and points out that those rules are not subject to the X-bar theory. In section three, it explores ways to account for the properties in a more principled way amenable to the X-bar theory. It suggests a cartographic structure comprising functional categories representing the concepts of "restoring", "path" and "distance" that can dominate locational PPs. In section four, it argues and shows that back is a preposition optionally requiring a PP complement only. Finally, in section 5, it summarizes the discussion and presents remaining problems.