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So, it seems clear that the idiosyncratic restrictions relating to the range of

complements which a Preposition does or does not permit are directly analo-

gous to the parallel restrictions which hold in the case of Verbs. The restric-

tions concerned are not categorial in nature (i.e. they are not associated with

every single item belonging to a given category): on the contrary, they are

lexical in nature (that is to say, they are properties of individual lexical items,

so that different words belonging to the same category permit a different range

So, it seems clear that the idiosyncratic restrictions relating to the range of complements which a Preposition does or does not permit are directly analo- gous to the parallel restrictions which hold in the case of Verbs. The restric- tions concerned are not categorial in nature (i.e. they are not associated with every single item belonging to a given category): on the contrary, they are lexical in nature (that is to say, they are properties of individual lexical items, so that different words belonging to the same category permit a different range of complements).