Non-core Participant PPs are Adjuncts
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Proceedings of LFG12; CSLI Publications On-line
This paper revisits the question of whether optional, non-core participant PPs are to be treated as arguments or as adjuncts in linguistic theory in general and in LFG grammars in particular. I argue that a number of considerations converge on pointing towards the latter option.
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