Mittwoch, 14.30 Uhr
To address the syntactic and semantic optionality of some complement prepositional phrases, and the consistent semantic contribution of prepositions across both complement and adjunct uses, I propose an account of PPs which assumes a single lexical entry for each sense of a preposition and which includes a three-way basic distinction between preposition types. I suggest that there are (1) complement PPs, (2) pseudo-complement PPs and (3) adjunct PPs. Each type has specific syntactic and semantic properties which influence how they are licensed and how they are integrated with the semantics of the sentences in which they appear. In particular, for complement and pseudo-complement PPs, there must be compatibility between the semantics of the PP and of the verb. This compatibility can be captured in terms of the lexical semantics of the modifying and the modified entities, and their ability to be integrated as determined by a hierarchy of lexical semantic relations. I discuss how this approach allows the capture of generalisations about the ways in which particular verbal relations can be extended, and how it avoids redundancy in the lexical representations of both verbs and prepositions while constraining the kinds of PPs that can modify particular verbs.
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