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b. dan sam/maca et ha-sefer *al/be-megira
Dan put/found Acc the-book on/in-drawer
(28) a. dan ma’amin *al/be-šulxanot
Dan believes on/in-tables
b. dan somex al/*be-megirot
Dan relies on/in-drawers
Since the bottom-up dependency is associated with the locative relation, the fact that
PP-verbs do not show it indicates that no such relation exists in the discussed
constructions, thereby supporting the proposal that the function of P is P C , rather than
P R .
(iii) A locative PP can be replaced by a locative pronoun such as here/there
(29a) or by a locative wh-phrase such as where (29b). Neither of these options is
grammatical in (30) where the same P-morpheme (in) occurs with a PP-verb:
(29) a. Dan sleeps in the garden/here.
b. Where does Dan sleep?
(30) a. Dan believes in love/*here.
b.*Where does Dan believe?
(iv) PP-verb constructions (31a) contrast sharply with locative constructions
(31b) with respect to binding (Hestvik 1991, Reinhart and Reuland 1993). In the latter
a pronoun coindexed with the subject is grammatical, whereas in the former a
reflexive must be used; using a pronoun results in ungrammaticality.
(31) a. dan i somex *al-av i /al acmo i
Dan i relies on-him/on himself
b. dan i sam et ha-kova al-av i /??al acmo i
Dan put Acc the-hat on-him/on himself
Under the approach to Binding developed in Reinhart and Reuland 1993
(“Reflexivity”, henceforth), the obligatoriness of the reflexive and the impossibility of
the pronoun in (31a) indicate that the preposition of PP-verbs is not a predicate. In the