Author: Vincent, Nigel

Date: May 25 1998

Title: The evolution of c-structure: prepositions and PPs from
Indo-European to Romance

Remarks: Earlier versions delivered at LFG97 and Workshop on Functional
Categories and Syntactic Change at ICHL13, Dusseldorf, August 1997. This
version submitted for a special issue of _Linguistics_ containing papers
from the Dusseldorf workshop edited by Ans van Kemenade.

Abstract: Traces the emergence of prepositions from original adverbial
particles, the subsequent interaction of prepositions and case and the
development of a P specifier system. Argues that these are distinct
chronological developments and that a model such as LFG which separates
f-structure from c-structure and/or morphology is better able to capture
the historical facts than an inherently configurational one such as
standard X-bar theory.