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There are instances of spatio-temporal DPs that can be used as adverbs. McCawley (1988) proposes that these “DP adverbs” are instances of adverbial PPs, claiming that a phonetically zero adposition can be hypothesized right above certain types of spatio-temporal DPs. This paper is an attempt to provide another piece of evidence for the silent PP analysis of DP adverbs. This paper examines the relativization of DP adverbs in English and in Japanese under the Promotion Analysis, and shows that DP adverbs behave in much the same way as DPs which are relativized from within PP with an overt adposition. This paper also shows that with the R-pronoun where as a relativizer, any spatial DPs can be relativized in English. This indicates that unlike what is argued in Caponigro and Pearl (2008, 2009), where is not a DP adverb but “incorporates” some adposition.
