TWO TYPES OF PREPOSITIONS AND THEIR CONSEQUENCES

Account of English Prepositional Phrase Structure

Two Types of Prepositions: A New Architecture of Spatial Language: Radical, rigorous, and refreshingly concrete, this book reconceives how English expresses space. Arguing that spatial meaning is generated by clause-level domain geometry rather than a single uniform PP category, it shows that radial and vectorial operators instantiate two distinct syntactic object types-oblique dependents in the Object Domain and directional predicates selecting direct objects in the Predicate Domain. From this architecture the author derives a compact, testable matrix of predictions (PRP/PSC, pseudo-passivization, fronting asymmetries, and more), unifies a wide range of diagnostics, and offers clear empirical protocols for evaluation. Essential reading for syntacticians, semanticists, and anyone interested in how form and meaning interact, this manuscript opens a new, falsifiable path through a long-standing theoretical landscape.

juillet 2026, env. 130 pages, Eliva Press, Anglais
Eliva Press
978-99993-4-319-0

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