Under the bed

[Stanley Dubinsky]

You might want to have a look at an article in LI 1995:

Dubinsky, S., and K. Williams.  1995.
Recategorization of prepositions as complementizers.
Linguistic Inquiry 26.125-137

In this article, we show that temporal "prepositions" actually occupy
a complementizer slot in Modern English.

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On Thu, 10 May 2001 09:21:21 -0400 you said:
>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
>