Open AccessLokative pronominer og præpositionalfrasens struktur
Author(s) -
Michael Hai Nguyen
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
ny forskning i grammatik
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2446-1709
pISSN - 1902-1291
DOI - 10.7146/nfg.v0i26.115997
Subject(s) - locative case , pronoun , linguistics , adverb , complement (music) , phrase , head (geology) , computer science , syntax , reflexive pronoun , philosophy , verb , chemistry , biology , paleontology , biochemistry , complementation , gene , phenotype
In this paper, I investigate the syntax of the prepositional phrase in Danish and the locative pronouns her ‘here’, der ‘there’ and hvor ‘where’ in e.g. hertil ‘hereto’. I argue that (a) the directional adverb p is a functional head that projects a pP on top of a PP and takes this PP as its complement; that (b) the locative pronoun moves via an intermediate position within the prepositional phrase before it leaves the prepositional phrase; and that (c) the preposition moves to p (P-to-p-incorporation).