The Category P Features, Projections, Interpretation

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Directional P form a complex predicate. As a result, the Theme (of the original verbal
predicate) and the Location of the Directional P become co-arguments. The former is
the external argument of the complex Directional predicate (V-P dir ), and the latter is its
internal one. Under “Reflexivity”, this means that the complex V-P dir is an independent
(syntactic) predicate, defining the lower VP (boldface) as the Binding domain, as shown
in (52):
(52) LF representation
…[ VP DP Ag V [ VP DP Th [ V’ [ V’ V path [ PP P dir DP Loc ]]]]]
V-P dir : Arg (θ Theme ), Int (location)
It is worth noting that the above account makes a non-trivial assumption that the
lower V and the upper one are, to some extent, separate predicates. Consider (53):
(53) ba-xalom, bart šalax et acmo i /*oto i le-pariz
“In his dream, Bart sent himself/him to Paris.”
(53) shows that the Agent argument of the verb and its Theme argument are coarguments.
I have argued that the Location argument and the Theme arguments are coarguments
as well. However, based on (42), the Location argument (realized as a
pronoun) and the Agent argument are clearly not co-arguments.
Note that separation of predicates in the Directional construction cannot be
derived directly from the VP-shell analysis itself. In the Dative construction, assumed to
be materialized in the VP-shell, all the arguments (Agent, Theme and Goal) are indeed
co-arguments (see 4.2), indicating that the lower and the upper Vs are a single predicate.
As far as the Directional construction is concerned, note first that it is not
surprising that the Agent and the Theme are co-arguments (53); they are the original
arguments of the verb. Further, the Location argument introduced by the Directional
predicate (P) forms a complex predicate with the lower V. As a result, Theme and
Location become co-arguments (51). However, the verb and the Directional P remain
separate domains of predication, despite the process of complex predicate formation.
Therefore the Agent argument of the verb and the Location argument of the Directional
predicate are not co-arguments (42).