Under the bed

[Mike Maxwell]

Ron Kaplan wrote:

>This seems to indicate (and apparently Emonds
>has argued) that the preposition "After" can take
>an S complement "you leave", not just an NP.
>...although I do wonder what Emonds said...

The refs you want may be

    Emonds, Joseph E. 1976. _A Transformational
    Approach to English Syntax._ New York: Academic
    Press.  (esp. sxn. V.4)

    Emonds, Joseph E. 1985. _A Unified Theory of
    Syntactic Categories._  Studies in Generative
    Grammar 19.  Dordrecht: Foris. (esp. ch. 6)

(although he might have written s.t. more recently).

Among the prepositions that Emonds says subcat for (tensed) S complements
are:

    although, since, while, before, because, lest, after

Words and phrases which get a similar treatment, although they might not be
considered prepositions elsewhere, include:

    in case, if

Emonds (1985) also gives examples from French.

                                         Mike Maxwell
                                         Summer Institute of Linguistics
                                         Mike_Maxwell at sil.org