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allows prepositions to combine with subordinate clauses (as in Det resulterte i at vi vant, literally “It resulted in that
we won”). I argue that the English case should be handled as the subcategorization for a certain complement class by a particular lexical
entry, while the Norwegian case indicates that the extended projection of clauses can continue up to the preposition. This highlights an
important difference between lexical selection and extended projection, revealing a hitherto underappreciated source of parametric
variation, and sheds light on several properties of extended projections as well as of prepositions. Specifically, the extended projections
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