Advances in Role and Reference Grammar

120 ROBERT D. VAN VALIN, JR.

Adverbial subordinate clauses are not introduced by complementizers

in English but rather by predicative prepositions which have clausal argu­

ments (see FVV:93). This is exemplified in (110) and Figure 36.

(110) a. John saw Mary after he arrived at the party.

b. [after' ([BECOME be-at' {he, the party)], [see' {John,

Mary)])