Into the talks about forming...
"The chancellor goes into talks this week about forming a government." (Reuters.)
There are two prepositional phrases in the sentence above where, semantically, "into talks this week" collocates with the verb "goes" and "about forming a government" with the noun "talks".
My question is: what syntactical functions do both prepositional phrases fulfil in the cited sentence?
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The chancellor goes [into talks this week [about forming a government]] . Both PPs are functioning as a complement . The larger PP in the outer brackets is complement of "goes", and the one in the inner brackets is complement of "talks".
- The chancellor goes [into talks this week [about forming a government]] .
- Both PPs are functioning as a complement .
- The larger PP in the outer brackets is complement of "goes", and the one in the inner brackets is complement of "talks".
- In other words, we have one PP functioning in the structure of another.
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The chancellor goes [into talks this week [about forming a government]].
Both PPs are functioning as a complement. The larger PP in the outer brackets is complement of "goes", and the one in the inner brackets is complement of "talks". In other words, we have one PP functioning in the structure of another.
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