Department of English, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Macau, Macau, China It appears that in such constructions the doubled element is often the verb. For Nishimura (1995, p. 167), “‘[p ...

PPs may be adjoined to both NP and VP or they may function as a complement to either category. Given a phrase with a PP, it is not easy to determine the PP is a complement or a modifier. A couple of ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In many languages the definite article cannot occur when a possessive phrase is present in the NP (e.g. English *the my book, *John's the book ...