Re: THEORY: Adpositional Heads

Isidora Zamora wrote:
> In this particular case, the prepositional phrase is adverbial.  It
> modifies "saw."  I saw a man *where*?  I saw a man *in the house.*
That doesn't clarify anything.  You don't say whether the act of seeing
occurs where the seeing person is or where the seen person is or where
they both are.  Maybe your native language has a built-in supposition of
where seeing occurs -- but English doesn't!

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