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The OEN-construction: Overt functional heads in the extended prepositional projection

Author: Joeri Vinke
Source: LingUU Journal, vol. 6, Iss. 2, pp. 57-77
Year: 2022
Published by: LingUU Journal

Abstract

Following up on work by Koopman (2000) and Den Dikken (2010), this
paper investigates the Dutch prepositional phrase op één na (the OEN-construction). Rather than having an unmarked locational or directive meaning, the meaning of the OEN-construction is exclusionary and can be paraphrased in English with Apart from (Broekhuis, 2013a). Geerts et al. (1984) take the OEN-construction to be a circumposition. It will be shown that the OEN-construction does not pair in syntactic behaviour with
normal Dutch circumpositions. This behaviour will be explained by analyzing op as being the lexicalisation of CPLACE (Koopman, 2000; Den Dikken, 2010). Expanding, then, on the framework provided by Koopman (2000) and Den Dikken (2010), this article will provide evidence that functional heads within the Extended Prepositional Projection can lexicalize under certain conditions.

Keywords

syntax; prepositional phrases; functional elements; Dutch; circumposition