Nonargumental Mixed Projections.

This paper takes a comparative look at idiosyncratic instances of mixed categories in Korean, Japanese, Hebrew, and Greek, arguing them to be genuine mixed projections, despite their inability to function as arguments—which in turn is a well-known characteristic of mixed projections, such as English gerunds. After their syntactic behavior is examined, it is argued that these nonargumental mixed projections are embedded within prepositional phrases headed by (null) temporal prepositions. This derives their peculiar properties while successfully capturing the differences between them and purely verbal/clausal projections such as infinitivals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]