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Stabler - Lx 185/209 2003
dP
t 3
v
makes
accP 4
vP 2
dP
t 1
accP
dP 1
tortillas
accP
benP 7
maria makes tortillas for me on tuesday: c
accP
acc vP
t 2
P
for
PP 6
ɛ:: =t c maria makes tortillas for me on tuesday: t
makes tortillas for me on tuesday: +k t, maria: -k
ɛ: =p +ben tem, makes tortillas for me: -ben, maria: -k
dP
t 5
dP 3
maria
pP
cP
c tP
dP 5
me
benP
pP
t’
t temP
pP
p PP
t 6
benP
ben accP
ɛ:: =tem +k t makes tortillas for me on tuesday: tem, maria: -k
on tuesday: +ben tem, makes tortillas for me: -ben, maria: -k
ɛ:: =ben =p +ben tem makes tortillas for me: ben -ben, maria: -k
ɛ: =p +acc ben -ben, makes tortillas: -acc, maria: -k
for me: +acc ben -ben, makes tortillas: -acc, maria: -k
ɛ:: =acc =p +acc ben -ben makes tortillas: acc -acc, maria: -k
makes tortillas: =d acc -acc
tortillas: +v =d acc -acc, makes: -v
ɛ: +k +v =d acc -acc, makes: -v, tortillas: -k
ɛ:: =v +k +v =d acc -acc makes: v -v, tortillas: -k
maria:: d -k
makes:: =d v -v tortillas:: d -k
t 4
for me: p
me: +p p, for: -p
ɛ: +k+pp,for:-p,me:-k
P
on
PP 9
dP
t 8
ɛ:: =P +k +p p for: P -p, me: -k
pP
dP 8
tuesday
for:: =d P -p me:: d -k
temP
pP
pP
p PP
t 9
temP
on tuesday: p
tuesday: +p p, on: -p
ɛ: +k +p p, on: -p, tuesday: -k
tem benP
ɛ:: =P +k +p p on: P -p, tuesday: -k
t 7
on:: =d P -p tuesday:: d -k
d. PPs in a “cascade”
Yet another idea is to reject the idea that the complement of a preposition is generally its object, in
favor of the view that the complement is another PP with the object in its specifier (Pesetsky, 1995). We
could also capture this idea, but we leave it as an exercise.
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