Chapter 1.Introduction
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1.1Preliminaries
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1.2Theoretical background
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1.2.1The Minimalist program (Chomsky 1995; 2005; 2008)
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1.2.2The Cartography of syntactic structures (Cinque 1999; 2006)
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1.2.3The Sortal domains (Svenonius and Ramchand 2014)
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1.3Overview
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Chapter 2.Analyzing PPs: Previous proposals on preposition ordering
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2.1
Larson (1988)
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2.2
Pesetsky (1995)
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2.3
Barbiers (1995)
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2.4
Nilsen (1998)
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2.5
Ernst (2002)
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2.6
Schweikert (2005)
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2.6.1Quantifier scope test
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2.6.2Informational focus test
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2.6.3Pair-list reading test
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2.7
Cinque (2006)
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2.8Summary
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Chapter 3.The hierarchy of PPs in Japanese
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3.1Modifier postpositional phrases in Japanese
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3.1.1Difference between modifiers and arguments
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3.1.2The list of modifier PPs under examination
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3.2The order of PPs in Japanese
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3.2.1Focus neutral order
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3.2.2Quantifier scope
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3.2.3Results of the tests
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3.3Unifying the hierarchies
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3.3.1Intermediate PP positions
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3.3.2Temporal and Locative
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3.4Summary
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Chapter 4.Mapping of PPs onto the Modal/Aspect field
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4.1Aspectual verbs
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4.1.1Bi-clausal approaches
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4.1.2Functional projection analysis
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4.2Interaction between aspectual verbs and PPs
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4.2.1Compositionality ‘scope’
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4.2.2Temporal
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4.2.3Locative
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4.2.4Comitative
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4.2.5Reason
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4.2.6Source
Path
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4.2.7Source
control
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4.2.8Goal
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4.2.9Instrumental/Means
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4.2.10Material
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4.2.11Manner
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4.2.12Summary
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4.3Aspect
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4.3.1Result/progressive aspect
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4.3.2Interaction between result/progressive aspect and PPs
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4.4Modals
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4.4.1Fine-grained modal types
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4.4.2Clearing the aspect positions in the modal field
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4.5Interaction between modals and PPs
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4.5.1Temporal
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4.5.2Locative
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4.5.3Comitative
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4.5.4Instrumental/Means
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4.6Summary
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Chapter 5.Possible Analysis
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5.1Comparing different approaches
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5.2Towards a new theory of modifier PPs
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5.2.1Movement analysis
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5.2.2Constraints on scope movement
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5.3Deriving the order among PPs
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5.3.1PPs in the event domain
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5.3.2PPs in the situation domain
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5.3.3Summary
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5.4Concluding remarks
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