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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS" size=2>John R --</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS" size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS" size=2>I realize that when I said that PPs 
"modify" nouns, that is a pretty simple-minded definition that goes back to the 
definitions we learned in "grammar school" (i.e., primary school) as a child. We 
were taught, for example, that adverbs can modify an adjective, a verb, or 
another adverb, and that prepositional phrases modify nouns. Of course, a lot of 
the defintions we learned then proved to be unsatisfactory on deeper analysis. 
One thing we didn't learn back then was that prepositional phrases can "modify" 
predicates, or even link one sentence to the previous one. If you are saying the 
word "modify" is too simple-minded, then I'm sure that's true. But the more 
technical aspects of what a PP does were out of focus of what I was trying to 
say.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS" size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS" size=2>Maybe what you are saying is that only 
what comes before a noun in English can be considered to modify it. You would 
then say that, normally, PPs and relative clauses don't modify nouns, but rather 
NPs. That is not how I look at it. I suppose that from your perspective, you 
would say that relative clauses are not part of a noun phrase, but rather modify 
a noun phrase, right?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS" size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS" size=2>The main thing I had wanted to say was 
that some PPs "apply" to a noun (or NP), some "apply" to a verb or VP or 
predicate, and some that come at the beginning of a sentence "apply" to the 
relation of that sentence to the previous one. You can choose whatever verb you 
want in place of "apply."</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS" size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS" size=2>Part of the difference between 
your definitions and mine could be explained if your view of syntax is geared 
towards binary splits, as in immediate constitutent analysis from the American 
structuralist period, and in transformational-generative grammar. My view of 
grammar allows for multiple splits in a tree diagram. I consider a PP or a 
relative clause following a noun to be part of the NP.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS" size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS" size=2>-- David F</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS" size=2></FONT> </DIV>
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  <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
  <DIV 
  style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> 
  <A title=dr_john_roberts@sil.org href="mailto:dr_john_roberts@sil.org">John 
  Roberts</A> </DIV>
  <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A 
  title=lexicographylist@yahoogroups.com 
  href="mailto:lexicographylist@yahoogroups.com">lexicographylist@yahoogroups.com</A> 
  </DIV>
  <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, December 06, 2006 10:21 
  AM</DIV>
  <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Lexicog] Re: lexical 
  phrase</DIV>
  <DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS" size=2></FONT><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS" 
  size=2></FONT><BR>David Frank wrote: </DIV>
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    <DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS" size=2>Generally, prepositional phrases 
    modify nouns, and the set of prepositional phrases that can modify a 
    noun is open-ended. There is a more limited set of prepositional phrases 
    that can modify a verb. These generally have a time word or a location word 
    as the object of the preposition, as in "in the morning" or "in the garden." 
    And there is an even more limited set of prepositional phrases that can 
    serve as sentence connectives, including the following:</FONT></DIV>
    <DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS" size=2>    on the other 
    hand</FONT></DIV>
    <DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS" size=2>
    <DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS" size=2>    on the 
    contrary</FONT></DIV>    by contrast</FONT></DIV>
    <DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS" size=2>
    <DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS" size=2>    by this 
    time</FONT></DIV>    at the same time</FONT></DIV>
    <DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS" size=2>    in 
    addition</FONT></DIV>
    <DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS" size=2>    by the 
    way</FONT></DIV>
    <DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS" size=2>    for this 
    reason</FONT></DIV>
    <DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS" size=2></FONT> </DIV><SPAN 
    style="COLOR: white"></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE><PRE class=moz-signature cols="72"><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS" color=#000000>David,

What do you mean when you say, "</FONT><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS" color=#000000 size=2>Generally, prepositional phrases ... modify nouns</FONT><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS"><FONT color=#000000>"? The normal function of an adposition with regard to nominals is to indicate the semantic role an adjacent NP plays in the sentence. It doesn't modify the meaning of the NP as such. In English you can have prepositions which modify a noun, e.g.</FONT></FONT>
</PRE>
  <P class=MsoNormal><SMALL><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS"><SPAN 
  class=ItalicText><SPAN lang=EN-US>above</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US>  
  items/average/normal/board/ground/weight/height<O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></SMALL></P>
  <P class=MsoNormal><SMALL><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS"><SPAN 
  class=ItalicText><SPAN lang=EN-US>away</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US>  
  match/game/team/form/fans/day/message<O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></SMALL></P>
  <P class=MsoNormal><SMALL><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS"><SPAN 
  class=ItalicText><SPAN lang=EN-US>below</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US>  
  average/par/ground/weight/height<O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></SMALL></P>
  <P class=MsoNormal><SMALL><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS"><SPAN 
  class=ItalicText><SPAN lang=EN-US>near</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US>  
  thing/miss/darkness/fall/tragedy<O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></SMALL></P>
  <P class=MsoNormal><SMALL><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS"><SPAN 
  class=ItalicText><SPAN lang=EN-US>opposite</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN 
  lang=EN-US>  
  side/end/way/direction/number<O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></SMALL></P>
  <P class=MsoNormal><SMALL><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS"><SPAN 
  class=ItalicText><SPAN lang=EN-US>past</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US>  
  times/issues/life/experience/estimates<BR></SPAN></FONT></SMALL></P><PRE class=moz-signature cols="72"><FONT size=+0><FONT size=+0><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS"><FONT color=#000000>through  train/road/ticket/flight/service

But only a limited number of prepositions can do this. You can also have PPs which modify nouns in English, e.g.</FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT>
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  <P class=MsoNormal><SMALL><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS"><SPAN 
  class=ItalicText><SPAN lang=EN-US>down-in-the-mouth</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN 
  lang=EN-US> expression<O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></SMALL></P>
  <P class=MsoNormal><SMALL><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS"><SPAN 
  class=ItalicText><SPAN lang=EN-US>in-your-face</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US> 
  attitude<O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></SMALL></P>
  <P class=MsoNormal><SMALL><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS"><SPAN 
  class=ItalicText><SPAN lang=EN-US>off-the-cuff</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US> 
  remark<O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></SMALL></P>
  <P class=MsoNormal><SMALL><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS"><SPAN 
  class=ItalicText><SPAN lang=EN-US>round-the-clock</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN 
  lang=EN-US> service<O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></SMALL></P>
  <P class=MsoNormal><SMALL><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS"><SPAN 
  class=ItalicText><SPAN lang=EN-US>up-to-date</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US> 
  timetable</SPAN></FONT></SMALL></P>
  <P class=MsoNormal><SMALL><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS"><SPAN lang=EN-US>up-to 
  the-minute fashion<BR></SPAN></FONT></SMALL></P>
  <P class=MsoNormal><SMALL><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS"><SPAN 
  lang=EN-US><BR>The examples of </SPAN></FONT></SMALL><FONT 
  face="Arial Unicode MS" size=2>PP sentence connectives you cite above are PPs 
  of the first type, i.e. PPs with a head preposition and a complement NP. In 
  these cases the P does not modify the head noun. Rather the P indicates the 
  semantic role of location for the NP. But the mismatch is that the PP is not 
  expressing a semantic role of the NP in relation to the predicate, but instead 
  is expressing the semantic role of location in some other domain of the 
  discourse.<BR></FONT></P>
  <P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS" size=2><BR>John 
  Roberts</FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE>
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